Copy number 1 of this collaboration between

Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp: Combat de Boxe.

DUCHAMP, Marcel and Man Ray. Combat de Boxe. Paris. Editions de Larcos. 1970.

Folio. (370 x 520 mm). pp. (5) including wrapper. Leaf with title recto and explanatory text verso ('COMBAT de BOXE / Pied du jongleur de gravité / Vêtement de la mariée') with colour (blue, green and red) keyed to the engraving by Man Ray, the engraving with additional colour, numbered '1 / 100' at lower left and signed at lower right 'M R' in pencil. Original publisher's printed wrappers with titles in black to front cover, additional original glassine jacket.

From the edition limited to 100 numbered copies, this copy numbered '1 / 100' and signed by Man Ray with his initials in pencil.

'Combat de Boxe' is the joint project - a posthumous one in the case of Duchamp who had died in 1968 - of Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp (the drawing by Man Ray is based upon an original idea of Duchamp) and relating to 'The Large Glass'. The print is presented in a folio with a page of text by Duchamp explaining the codes used for the making of the drawing.

[Schwarz 337 for the photograph of the original drawing 'Combat de Boxe'; see Schawarz pp. 172 - 175].

£3,500