Marcel Duchamp Volume (Series V, Number 1, March 1945)
Surrealist magazine.
Original printed wrappers designed by Duchamp, staple bound, numerous b/w illustrations throughout from photographs including a moveable foldout triptych with die- cuts by Frederick Kiesler of Duchamp in his studio, 54 pp, first edition. Charles Henry Ford, editor.
12h x 9w in (30.48h x 22.86w cm)
$ 550
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The magazine features important articles on Duchamp by Andre Breton, Gabrielle Buffet, Robert Desnos, Harriet & Sidney Janis, and Frederick Parker, plus contributions by Man Ray.
Condition: Crease in the upper right corner of the cover and lightly throughout the magazine and on the back cover. The foldout triptych is in fine condition. The back cover has a water stain on the lower outer edge, which continues inside on some of the back pages, soiling to the back cover.
Marcel Duchamp (1887 –1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer who had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty-first-century art and, equally, a seminal influence on the development of conceptual art.
Charles Henry Ford was an American poet, novelist, diarist, filmmaker, photographer, and collage artist, as well as the editior of View magazine from 1940 to 1947.
