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Prière de toucher, (Please touch), folder front of the book Le Surréalisme en 1947, exposition du suréalisme (Paris: Pierre à Feu/Maeght Éditeur, 1947)
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Duchamp and Donati prepared exactly 999 hand-colored foam-rubber breasts for the deluxe edition of the catalogue for the 1947 Surrealism exhibition that Duchamp and André Breton co-curated. Donati later recalled: "By the end we were fed up, but we got the job done. I remarked that I never thought I would get tired of handling so many breasts, and Marcel said, 'Maybe that's the whole idea.'"
- Artists
- Marcel Duchamp, Enrico Donati
- Publisher
- Pierre à Feu
- Title
- Prière de toucher, (Please touch), folder front of the book Le Surréalisme en 1947, exposition du suréalisme (Paris: Pierre à Feu/Maeght Éditeur, 1947)
- Date
- 1947
- Object Type
- Artist's Book
- Medium
- velvet and hand colored foam
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 203 x 176 mm (8 x 6 15/16 in.)
- Credit Line
- Gift of Paula Zurcher in memory of Elizabeth H. Paepcke
- Accession Number
- 1996.25.1.1
