About The Work
Eager to share Marcel Duchamp with Japanese audiences, Shuzo Takiguchi - a Japanese-born poet, critic, and artist with ties to surrealist circles assembled an international portfolio of graphic works by various artists with strong ties to Duchamp, to accompany the deluxe version of his monograph, "To and From Rrose Sélavy".
The present work is a silkscreen print of Duchamp's famous original "Self-portrait in Profile", a collage created a decade earlier for deluxe editions of Robert Lebel’s "Sur Marcel Duchamp." (Self-Portrait in Profile became one of Duchamp’s best known late works, appearing in exhibition posters and inspiring homages by Jasper Johns and Ray Johnson.) Duchamp serigraphed inscription "Marcel dechiravit pour Shuzo Takiguchi 1967."
Marcel déchiravit—"Marcel tore this quickly" refers to the inscription of the original "Self Portrait in Profile". ("Marcel dechiravit" incorporates the invented word dechiravit, a contraction of the French verb déchirer (to tear) and the adverb vite (quick), which, again, alludes to the process Duchamp employed to create the original Self-Portrait in Profile.). In the present work, Duchamp playfully adds "pour Shuzu Takiguchi 1967" to his original inscription "Marcel dechiravit" - hand signed in ink. Takiguchi's book, "To and From Rrose Sélavy", which accompanied the print portfolio, was published in 1968 - after Duchamp died.
Rrose Selavy, by the way, is, famously, Marcel Duchamp's female alter ego.
Courtesy of Alpha 137 Gallery
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Silkscreen
13.75 x 10.40 in
34.9 x 26.4 cm
Duchamp's signature and caption are serigraphed on the recto: "Marcel dechiravit pour Shuzo Takiguchi 1967". Unnumbered from the edition of 60
About The Work
Eager to share Marcel Duchamp with Japanese audiences, Shuzo Takiguchi - a Japanese-born poet, critic, and artist with ties to surrealist circles assembled an international portfolio of graphic works by various artists with strong ties to Duchamp, to accompany the deluxe version of his monograph, "To and From Rrose Sélavy".
The present work is a silkscreen print of Duchamp's famous original "Self-portrait in Profile", a collage created a decade earlier for deluxe editions of Robert Lebel’s "Sur Marcel Duchamp." (Self-Portrait in Profile became one of Duchamp’s best known late works, appearing in exhibition posters and inspiring homages by Jasper Johns and Ray Johnson.) Duchamp serigraphed inscription "Marcel dechiravit pour Shuzo Takiguchi 1967."
Marcel déchiravit—"Marcel tore this quickly" refers to the inscription of the original "Self Portrait in Profile". ("Marcel dechiravit" incorporates the invented word dechiravit, a contraction of the French verb déchirer (to tear) and the adverb vite (quick), which, again, alludes to the process Duchamp employed to create the original Self-Portrait in Profile.). In the present work, Duchamp playfully adds "pour Shuzu Takiguchi 1967" to his original inscription "Marcel dechiravit" - hand signed in ink. Takiguchi's book, "To and From Rrose Sélavy", which accompanied the print portfolio, was published in 1968 - after Duchamp died.
Rrose Selavy, by the way, is, famously, Marcel Duchamp's female alter ego.
Courtesy of Alpha 137 Gallery
From The Magazine
- Art 101: How Duchamp, Kusama, & Basquait Take Selfies: 27 Contemporary Self-Portraits
- Art 101: The Art of the Botch Job: What Happens When a Priceless Piece of Art is Destroyed?
- Art 101: The Evolution of Art: Artworks That Advanced Our Understanding of the Medium, Part I
- Art 101: The 10 Essays That Changed Art Criticism Forever
- Art 101: Alexander Calder, More than a Sculptor, Made Paintings, Jewelry, and Stage Sets
Catalogue Raisonne Reference: Arturo Schwarz The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, Abrams, P.532, 344c
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