3 Standard Stoppages, 1964 (mixed media)

signed, numbered, dated and stamped 'Marcel Duchamp 1964 5/8 3 STOPPAGES-ETALON, 1913-14 EDITION GALERIE SCHWARZ, MILAN' (on a copper plate affixed to the wooden storage case); titled and dated '3 STOPPAGES ETALON 1913-14' (on a leather label affixed to each glass panel); printed on the back of each canvas: 'Un mètre de fil droit, horizontal, tombé d'un mètre de haut' and '(3 stoppages étalon; appartenant à Marcel Duchamp) 1913-14'; the back of one canvas is also signed and dated 'Marcel Duchamp 1964' three pieces of thread each laid down and affixed with varnish on oil on three canvases mounted on three glass panels; three wood slats in a wooden storage case artist's wooden storage case: 50 7/8 x 9 x 11 in. (129.2 x 22.8 x 28 cm.) glass panels: 49 3/8 x 7 1/4 x 1/4 in. (125.5 x 18.5 x 6 cm.) three wooden slats (shaped): 43 1/8 x 2 1/2 x 1/8 in. (109.8 x 6.4 x 4 cm.) 42 3/4 x 2 1/2 x 1/8 in. (108.6 x 6.4 x 4 cm.) 47 1/8 x 2 5/8 x 1/8 in. (119.6 x 6.6 x 4 cm.) Conceived in 1913-1914 and executed in 1964. This work is number five from an edition of eight replicas plus two artist's proofs and two replicas outside of the edition.