'The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even (The Green Box)', Marcel Duchamp | Tate

Artwork details

Artist

Marcel Duchamp (1887‑1968)

Title

The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even (The Green Box)

La Mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires même (Boîte verte)

Date 1934

MediumCardboard box, colour plate and 94 lithographs, collotypes and ink on paper

Dimensionsobject: 333 x 279 x 25 mm

Collection

Tate

Acquisition Purchased 2001

Reference

T07744

View this artwork by appointment, at Tate Britain's Prints and Drawings Rooms

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Duchamp published this collection of 94 documents to explain some of his thinking and to show some of the preliminary works relating to The Large Glass. The notes were left loose so that their relationships for the reader would be determined by chance.

June 2010

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