Player Piano Roll / Marcel Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even, Erratum Musicalin / La Mariée Mise à Nu Par ses Célibataires Même, 1977
Working printed player piano roll as housed in original plain white cardboard box with folded description sheet in French and English. Signed and numbered 484/500 by Kotik on the description sheet and inside the box lid. Condition: slight water damage to inside box and beginning of piano roll; player part of roll is clean.
12h x 2 1/4w x 2d in (30.48h x 5.72w x 5.08d cm)
PK001
$ 550.00
The printed player piano roll records Duchamp's The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors Even, Erratum Musical which was scored by Petr Kotik in 1974 and recorded on the player piano roll by Martin Kalve. The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même), most often called The Large Glass (Le Grand Verre), measures over 9 feet tall and almost 6 feet wide. It was created by Duchamp between the years 1915 and 1923 while he was living in New York City. It is composed of two panes of glass with materials such as lead foil, fuse wire, and dust combined with chance procedures, plotted perspective studies, and laborious craftsmanship. Duchamp's idea for the Glass began in 1912. Numerous notes and studies, as well as preliminary works for the piece reflect the creation of unique rules of physics, and myth surrounding the piece. This "hilarious picture" is intended to depict the erotic encounter between the "Bride", in the upper panel, and her nine "Bachelors" gathered timidly in an abundance of mysterious mechanical apparatus in the lower panel.
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 he had a seminal influence on the development of conceptual art.