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Artist or Maker: Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)

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Description: Marcel Duchamp moulé vif
signed, dated and inscribed 'Marcel Duchamp moulé vif 1967' (on the right back of the base); dated, numbered and inscribed with the foundry mark 'Editions Les Maitres Ltd New York © 1967 V/VI' (on the left back of the base)
bronze with brown patina with an onyx and black marble chessboard
Height: 21 3/4 in. (55.2 cm.)
Base: 16 3/4 x 9 3/8 in. (42.5 x 23.8 cm.)
Conceived in 1967 and executed in a numbered edition of six plus three artist's proofs

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Published: A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, London, 1969, no. 394 (another cast illustrated p. 563).

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Notes: The mask of the face and the arm are made from life casts of Duchamp, while the chess piece was cast from the knight in Duchamp's favourite chess set.

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