MARCEL DUCHAMP (BLAINVILLE-CREVON 1887 - NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE 1968) "Je purule, tu purules, lachaise purule..." telegram addressed to andré breton, signed r.rose in typewriting cm 30x50 Transcription of pun on a facsimile of a telegram on pink paper. The telegram was originally included in the Boîte Alerte, a numbered edition of the catalogue published on the occasion of the ‘Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme’ at the Galerie Daniel Cordier in Paris that opened on 15 December 1959, organised by Duchamp and André Breton. Print limited to 250 numbered copies. The telegram is addressed to ‘VOUS, Chez André Breton 42 Rue Fontaine PARIS’ and hypothetically sent from New York (Duchamp's home at the time). It reads: ‘JE PURULE TU PURULES LACHAISE PURULE GRACE A UN RABLE DE VENERIEN QUI NA RIEN DE VENERABLE RROSE’. Provenance Arturo Schwarz Collection Private collection, Milan Literature A. Schwarz "The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp" New York 2000, p. 909, n.145 Kestner Gesellschaft-Hannover Katalog 1 Ausstellungsjahr 1965/66, n. 115-180, p. 56 (non illustrato) This work is accompanied by certificate of origin and authenticity on photograph issued by Arturo Schwarz