Sale 2532 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, March 5, 2020

330 c ALBERT GLEIZES Composition Cubiste (Centre Noir). Lithograph, 1921. 360x266 mm; 14 1 / 8 x10 1 / 2 inches, full margins. Edition of 125. Initialed in pencil, lower right. Published by Euphorion Verlag, Berlin. From Die Schaffenden , with the blind stamp lower left. Loyer 153. With—JEAN METZINGER. Sans titre , drypoint * FRANCIS PICABIA. Nature morte , drypoint, 1907. Both 173x129 mm; 6 7 / 8 x5 1 / 8 inches, full margins. Both published by La Compagnier Francaise des Arts Graphiques, Paris. Both from Du Cubisme. Very good impressions. [2,500/3,500] 331 c MARCEL DUCHAMP Coffee Mill. Etching, 1947. 180x80 mm; 7 1 / 8 x3 1 / 8 inches, full margins. Numbered 51/200 in pencil, lower left. Second state (of 2), after cancellation. A very good, evenly-printed impression. Duchamp (1887-1968) etched this print for Du Cubisme after the same-titled oil painting he had made in 1911 for his brother, sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon. His brother was married in 1911 and had asked his artist friends to make him small paintings with which to decorate their newlywed kitchen. According to Duchamp’s later recollection, “I made this old-fashioned coffee mill for him. It shows the different facets of the coffee grinding operation and the handle on top is seen simultaneously in several positions as it revolves. You can see the ground coffee in a heap under the cogwheels of the central shaft, which turns in the directions of the arrow on top” (d’Harnoncourt/McShine, Marcel Duchamp , 1973, page 256). [1,500/2,500] 330 331