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Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’: the Baroness theory debunked
10/2019 | 1399 | 161
Pages: 804-810
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Author:
Bailey, Bradley (Bailey, Bradley)
Subjects
art literature:
Gammel, Irene / Spalding, Julian / Thompson, Glyn
artists:
Duchamp, Marcel / Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, Elsa / Varèse (nee Norton), Louise / Wood, Beatrice / Roché, Henri-Pierre / Stella, Joseph / Stieglitz, Alfred / Demuth, Charles
collectors and dealers:
Arensberg, Walter C.
dates:
1910-1919
places:
New York
styles:
Dada
subjects:
Society of Independent Artists / Exhibitions / Attributions
works:
Fountain by Marcel Duchamp
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Fountain, by Marcel Duchamp. 1917. Photograph Alfred Stieglitz, vintage silver print, 23.5 by 17.8 cm. (© Succession Marcel Duchamp/ DACS London 2019; private collection; courtesy Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York).
Attributed works:
2. Louise Varèse, by Brassaï. 1931. Gelatin silver print, 12.2 by 14.9 cm. (Louise Varèse Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Libraries, Northampton MA; © RMN-Grand Palais; DACS London 2019).
Attributed works:
3. Letter from Marcel Duchamp to Suzanne Duchamp. 11th April 1917. 23 by 15 cm. (Jean Crotti papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC).
Attributed works:
6. Detail of Fig.1, showing the information tag.
Attributed works:
7. Detail of ‘Marcel Duchamp at Play’ an essay by Louise Varèse. Late 1972. (Louise Varèse Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Libraries, Northampton MA).
Western art unattributed:
4. Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. 1922. Photograph. (George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Washington DC).
Western art unattributed:
5. Louise Varèse, Edgard Varèse, Suzanne Duchamp, Jean Crotti and Mary Reynolds photographed in Paris. 1924. (Jean Crotti papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution).
Book Review
The Apparently Marginal Activities of Marcel Duchamp. By Elena Filipovic
07/2018 | 1384 | 160
Pages: 612-613
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Reviewer:
Walsh, Taylor (Walsh, Taylor)
Subjects
art literature:
Roché, Henri-Pierre
artists:
Duchamp, Marcel
dates:
1900-1999
media:
Art objects / Documents / Displays / Installations (visual works)
places:
France / United States
subjects:
Curators / Publishers / Art dealers / Critical Reception / Artists' magazines / Artists' groups and associations / Dada / Surrealism / Eroticism / Archives / Monographs / Notebooks / Writings
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Boîte-en-valise, by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy. Brown leather valise with handle containing sixty-nine miniature replicas and printed reproductions and one original, Virgin (No. 2), 1938, hand-coloured collotype. 1935–41 (box); 1938 (collotype). The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950 (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; photograph Art Resource, NY).