- Gilden's Arts Gallery -
MARCEL DUCHAMP 1887 - 1968 Announcement for the Exhibition 'Doors', 1968 Original Hand signed and Numbered Impression and Cut-out on acetate 28.1 x 19.7 cm / 11 x 7.7 in
This work is a representation of the doors designed by Duchamp in 1937 for Andre Breton’s gallery Gradiva at 31 rue de Seine, Paris. After the gallery was closed down, the door was destroyed. Our work was used as an announcement of the Doors exhibition at Cordier & Ekstrom, New York (March 19 – April 20, 1968). Duchamp produced miniatures of the door, both on paper and acetate. In addition, he created a “life-size” plexiglass replica of his Gradiva glass entrance.