Description: Up for bid is a very rare production print for the MARCEL DUCHAMP multiple from the legendary 1968 subscription based art journal S.M.S. (Shit Must Stop). The Marcel Duchamp contribution comes from the #2 portfolio, and consisted as a seven minute vinyl phonograph record entitled CONTREPETRIE... a word play involving transposing words, letters, and syllables and their sounds to make puns and effect new meanings. As issued, the vinyl record was attached to the Duchamp designed white portfolio cover with a small black machine screw/nut. This particular item does not include the vinyl record... instead it is the die-cut embossed unpeeled adhesive print that adorned one side of the vinyl record. Guaranteed to be authentic, and extremely rare. This die-cut adhesive print measures 6.5" in diameter and is in excellent vintage condition, with minor edge wear as shown. The peel off wax paper backing paper is still affixed as shown. Please note, I have also listed a signed/dated version of this same adhesive print, as well as one of the larger gripper page prints that Duchamp also signed/dated in black ink. Contact me if you have any further questions. Item will be carefully packed and shipped via USPS Priority to all domestic locations. All foreign locations to ship via USPS Priority International."Founded in New York City by artist, collector and dealer William Copley, S.M.S. was an art collection in a box, filled with small-scale, often whimsical, artworks available by subscription. Delivering art through the post offered Copley, and his collaborator Dmitri Petrov, a way to circumvent the art market and make contemporary art accessible to nearly anyone. Inspired by Copley’s mentor and friend Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-valise, S.M.S. was conceived as an inter-media and intergenerational publication that would present artworks by prominent and unknown artists side by side. The magazine gathered an impressive range including the Surrealist luminaries Man Ray and Meret Oppenheim, Pop artists Richard Hamilton and Roy Lichtenstein, composers Lamont Young and Terry Riley, and an up-and-coming generation of conceptual and post-studio artists such as Joseph Kosuth and Bruce Nauman. Regardless of stature, each was paid $100 for their contribution. This egalitarian spirit extended to the communal atmosphere of Copley’s upper west side Letter Edged in Black Press loft which functioned as an unofficial hangout for many of the participants. The six issues of S.M.S. are composed of “original reproductions”—luxurious, exacting replicas of each artist’s work in an edition of approximately 2,000. The magazine spared no expense, seeking out, and even inventing, varied and obscure production methods including Lil Picard’s labor intensive Burned Bow Tie—each of which needed to be individually singed. The enormous edition size—and the affordable price of $125 per subscription—enabled a much broader swath of the public to collect the internationally recognized artists contained in the portfolios. Ultimately short-lived, S.M.S. portfolios were mailed bi-monthly between February and December of 1968 directly to subscribers, with each portfolio containing approximately a dozen works of art." (quote and any extra photography taken directly from sms.sensatejournal.com)
Price: 950 USD
Location: Cleveland, Ohio
End Time: 2025-01-28T07:29:25.000Z
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Artist: Marcel Duchamp
Listed By: Dealer or Reseller
Type: Print
Year of Production: 1968
Size: Small (up to 12in.)
Signed: No
Date of Creation: 1950-1969
