Art + Design 
18 January 2018
Art + Design 
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Marcel Duchamp 1887–1968

Contrepetrie record album from the S.M.S. Portfolio

1968
45 rpm record attached to paper 11 h × 7 w × 1 d in (28 × 18 × 3 cm)
estimate: $300–500
result: $500
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Duchamp contributed a seven-minute recording of himself reading transposed letters, words and syllables. The record can be removed and played. This work was one Duchamp's last pieces. He died shortly after his SMS contribution. This piece directly related to earlier recordings and record-shaped artworks made by the famous Dadaist, Surrealist and father of conceptual art.
This work is from the edition of approximately 2000 published by Letter Edged in Black Press.
provenance: Private Collection, Chicago

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