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: 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).

MediumOriginal 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.

ClassificationBooks

Credit LineGift of Molly and Walter Bareiss

Object number

1984.431

Not on View

Label TextThe 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.Published Referencescf. Schwarz, Arturo, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1970, no. 209, p. 502, repr.Exhibition HistoryToledo Museum of Art, The Bareiss Collection of Modern Illustrated Books from Toulouse-Lautrec to Kiefer, 1985, no. 26

Toledo Museum of Art, DaDA dADa daDa dada..., Feb. 2 - April 2, 2001, (cover only).