Oct 01, 2014 - Sale 2358

Sale 2358 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 2,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(DUCHAMP, MARCEL; and JOHN CAGE.) Kubota, Shigeko. Marcel Duchamp and John Cage / Reunion. Photographic plates by Kubota; 33 r.p.m. recording laid in. Oblong 8vo, 148x218 mm, silver-lettered blue cloth; clear dust jacket, chipped; board slipcase, soiled and faded. [Toronto, 1968-70]

Additional Details

scarce album and recording of the famous chess match. This work documents the chess game entitled "Reunion" that took place at the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto on March 5th, 1968. Participants included Duchamp and Cage, along with Teeny Duchamp, David Tudor, Gordon Mumma, Lowell Cross, and David Behrman (who made the recording). Cross constructed a chess board with circuits which transmitted or cut off sound produced by a group of musicians activated by pieces moved across the board. A portion of the "concert" is contained on the phonodisc recorded by Behrman. See also Art in America 61: 72-9 (Nov. 1973).