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

Date1936

Dimensionsbook: 11 1/2 x 8 3/8 x 3/8 in. (292 x 212 x 10mm)
page: 11 7/16 x 8 1/8 in. (290 x 207mm)

MediumReproductions: 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: cream wove paper

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineMuseum Purchase

Object number

1979.100

Not on View

Collections

Works on Paper

Published Referencescf. Schwarz, Arturo, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1970, no. 209, p. 502, repr.Exhibition Historycf. Toledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of modern illustrated books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 26. (1984.431) cf. TMA Feb 2 - April 2, 2001 (Dada) cover only (1984.431) TMA: The Artist As Illustrator, Mar. 21, - June 21,1981 Toledo Museum of Art, Pop Prints from the TMA Collection, July 7 - October 8, 2006.Label TextThe cover of this surrealist publication of "decoupage" poems reproduces Duchamp's 1921 ' "ready-made" WHY NOT SNEEZE RROSE SELAVY?