Why not Sneeze, Rose Sélavy? is a 1921 "
readymade" sculpture by
Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp made the piece as a birdcage containing a thermometer, a piece of
cuttlebone and 152 marble cubes. He crafted the cubes to look like
sugar cubes. Only when lifting the cage does it become clear that it is much heavier than it would be if the cubes were made of sugar.
About the sculpture, Duchamp said:
- It is a Readymade in which the sugar is changed to marble. It is sort of a mythological effect.
The
Philadelphia Museum of Art displays the original as part of the
Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection. Several replicas exist, made by Duchamp, but only in the original are the cubes stamped "Made in France".
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