Facsimile of the G 1968 edition of La Boîte-en-valise, all details in original format, including three-dimensional miniatures, and reproductions of ready-mades and paintings such as 'Fountain,' 'Nude Descending a Staircase' and the 'Large Glass.'

La boîte-en-valise, Marcel Duchamp's 'Portable Museum,' is a compendium of miniature versions of his own oeuvre. The idea of creating La Boîte preoccupied Duchamp for much of the 1930s – the decade during which discussions surrounding institutionalisation of modern art as well as its role in the age of mechanical reproduction first came into focus. Functioning as an independent, original work of art, La Boîte encapsulates the artist's take on the value of a work of art, the concept of an art museum, as well as the nature of creating multiples. Originally consisting of sixty-eight miniature replicas of his most important works, each painstakingly reproduced and assembled into a briefcase-sized box, Duchamp continued to reproduce and remake La Boîte in a series of different versions until his death in 1968.

Facsimile of the G 1968 edition Boîte-en-valise, from an edition of 3000; green box containing 81 miniatures, some three-dimensional, housed in original cardboard box; overall size: 38 x 37 x 8 cm.