[Marcel DUCHAMP.] Robert LEBEL. - Lot 91

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[Marcel DUCHAMP.] Robert LEBEL. - Lot 91
[Marcel DUCHAMP.] Robert LEBEL. On Marcel Duchamp. Water & gas on all floors. Paris, Éditions Trianon, 1959. In-4, in sheets, filled printed cover, in a red cloth box with black suedecloth inner flap, and the large glass mounted in the upper flap, with, on the first plate, an enamelled plate bearing "Eau & Gaz à tous les étages", signed M.D. (publisher's box). Original edition. One of the first 10 copies on Arches wove paper (n° I), signed by Marcel Duchamp and Robert Lebel. It belongs to the series of seventeen copies by literate collaborators A to Q. It includes a self-portrait of Duchamp signed Marcel dechiravit, mounted on the flap in black suede, a print of the large glass hand-coloured by Duchamp and signed Marcel coloriavit. The suedecloth protective flap of the work has a zinc plate inside. The box bears a ready made Water & Gas on all floors, signed by Marcel Duchamp. The first major monograph devoted to Marcel Duchamp, who designed the layout. Paul Franklin, whom we thank for his help, was able to establish from the archives of Trianon Press the list of all the collaborators' copies. The fact that copy "I" was offered - and dedicated by Marcel Duchamp - to the lawyer and Chicago Barnet Hodes collector is explained by the relations between him and Marcel Duchamp, but also by the lawyer's relations with his client and friend the painter William Copley who financed the edition of Water & Gas on all floors. The frame of the "Grand Verre" has been v
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