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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).