Tiré à quatre épingles
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Tiré à quatre épingles
Artist
Marcel Duchamp
French, 1887-1968
Publisher
PAB (Pierre André Benoit)
Alès, 1959
Printer
PAB
Alès
Author
Pierre de Massot
French, 1900-1969
Date1959
DimensionsPage: H: 4 1/2 in. (114 mm); W: 4 1/2 in. (144 mm).
MediumOriginal print: drypoint.
Text: letterpress (typeface: Futura).
Paper: auvergne cream laid.
ClassificationBooks
Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss
Object number
1984.435
Not on View
Collections
Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, Splendid Pages: the Molly and Walter Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books, Feb. 14--May 11, 2003.Label TextPublisher Pierre André Benoit (who published under his initials PAB) was fond of printing very small books. He would solicit artwork from his friends, sending them several sheets of celluloid on which they could scratch a drypoint engraving. He printed the engravings himself and sometimes wrote his own poem or text to accompany the print. He published 15 tiny books with art by Picasso, four with his friend Jean Dubuffet, and three with Duchamp. Many other artists and writers were tapped for this personal obsession. Unlike other publishers, who spent years on a single publication, Benoit would send a finished book to an artist only a few weeks after receiving an image. Editions were no more than 30 or 40 copies.- Works on Paper
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