La Septième Face du Dé
Artist: Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887-1968)
Publisher: Éditions Jeanne Bucher, Paris, 1936
Printer: phototypes: Duval, Paris, text: Grou-Radenez, Paris
Author: Georges Hugnet (French, 1906-1974)
Date: 1936
Dimensions:
Book: H: 11 1/2 in. (292 mm); W: 8 3/8 in. (212 mm); Depth: 3/8 in. (10 mm).
Page: H: 11 7/16 in. (290 mm); W: 8 1/8 in. (207 mm).
Medium: Original collage: pieces of printed paper cut from newspapers and magazines (by Hugnet).
Reproductions: 20 photolithographs of collages (some in colors), plus 1 embossed photolithograph of object by Duchamp on front wrapper.
Text: letterpress in green with black.
Paper: blue wove paper.
Classification: Books
Credit Line: Gift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number: 1984.431
Label Text:The cover of this Surrealist publication of "decoupage" poems reproduces Duchamp's 1921 "ready-made" WHY NOT SNEEZE RROSE SELAVY? This particular copy has an original collage frontispiece.
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