The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box)
Marcel Duchamp, French, 1887 - 1968
September 1934
Felt-covered cardboard box containing ninety-four collotypes
162/300
Overall: 13 1/16 × 11 × 1 in. (33.2 × 27.9 × 2.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Florence and Lansing Porter Moore 1937 Fund
2013.49
Geography
Place Made: France, Europe
Period
20th century
Object Name
Written Communication: Book
Research Area
Mixed Media
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed by the artist and numbered 162/300
Course History
THEA 17, 19th and 20th century Performance, Laura Edmondson, Spring 2014
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2019
ARTH 89.05, Art History: Theory and Method, Elizabeth Kassler-Taub, Fall 2019
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2020
ARTH 41.02, 20th Century European Art 1900 - 1945, Katie Hornstein, Fall 2021
ENGL 7.47, Tales of the Avant-Garde, Andrew McCann, Winter 2022
Exhibition History
Masterworks: Sculpture, Prints and Drawings by Hugh Townley and From his Personal Collection, BigTown Gallery, Rochester, Vermont, April 17 to July 28, 2013
Virtual Space for Dialogue, 2017, DADA Today: Juxtaposing DADA and Contemporary Protest Art, Ameli Klein, Homma Family Intern, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. https://www.aklein.vsfd.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu
Provenance
The artist; Estate of Hugh Townley (1923-2008), Bethel, Vermont, 2008; BigTown Gallery, Rochester, Vermont, about 2008; sold to present collection, 2013.
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