Fountain (first miniature)
Duchamp, Marcel
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Date
1938Description
paper and glue over metal armature
First miniature, Paris.
Inscribed on underside: "Marcel Duchamp / 1938"Four miniature varieties of Fountain are known, including a unique maquette made by Duchamp in 1938. With this maquette as a guide, Duchamp hired a craftsman to make an interpositive model and mold from which gloss-glazed Fountain miniatures were cast in late 1938...From these editions gloss-glazed miniatures were mainly used in Box-in-a-Valise (deluxe edition); a few gloss-glazed miniatures were used in early examples of Box (regular edition). Most...were inscribed ("R.MUTT / 1917"); however, some examples without an inscription are known.
Camfield, Marcel Duchamp: Fountain, pp.70-71. full view
Type of Work
Sculpture; MaquetteSubject
Conceptual art, Dadaism, Facsimiles, Ready-mades, Urinals (plumbing fixtures), Avant-garde (Aesthetics), Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968. Fountain, Wit and humor
Rights Statement
All rights reserved
Item is Part of
123854