"Lithographs A and B / Using 8 aluminum plates and 9 colors, Lithograph A was hand printed on black Fabriano rag paper 27 1/2" x 40 1/4". Lithograph B, using 8 aluminum plates and 8 colors was hand printed on rag paper 27 1/2" x 40 1/4" ... / Hand printed under the supervision of Hollanders Workshop Incorporated, New York."--Colophon., 125 numbered examples plus 18 roman numeraled artist's proofs., A work created by John Cage and designer Calvin Sumsion in memory of Marcel Duchamp. The edition consists of 8 plexigrams, each comprised of 8 Plexiglas panels showing silk screened letters, words and visual images which Cage selected according to chance operations. Two panels are tinted bronze, six are clear. The panels can be arranged randomly on an accompanying slotted, wood base measuring 37 x 61 x 2 cm. A black sheet of paper with a white label has typed instructions on how to arrange. Also included is a booklet (38 pages ; 36 x 51 cm) with title: "To describe the process of composition used in Not wanting to say anything about Marcel: Plexigrams I-VIII lithographs A and B / together with a glossary." Inserted into the booklet is a diagram printed on a transparent sheet (fig. 3). Housed in a black cardboard box., Numbered in manuscript on instructions sheet: II, 40/125. Imperfect: lithographs A and B wanting. Autographs Calvin Sumsion and John Cage on wood base. Booklet annotated., and Signed and numbered faintly on slotted side of wood base.
"De oplage werd gedrukt ... en beperkt tot vijftig exemplaren, genummerd van 1 to 50 en vijftien exemplaren genummerd van I tot XV ... Dis is nummer [blank]"--Colophon., Issued in case., and Nummer X/XV. Autograph of Paul de Vree. In case as issued. From the library of Henri Chopin.
