2024.12.17
451.Rhawn Gallery
1959.12.17
1959. Thursday, New York City
Invited by Bamberger's store of Newark to dress a window during the period of the annual art show in the first fortnight of February, Duchamp's idea is to give some publicity to Robert Lebel's book []6.11.1959]. He asks Henri Marceau if the Philadelphia Museum of Art would agree to lend three works from the collection to Bamberger's: Nu descendant un Escalier, No.3 [29.4.1919], the copy of the famous picture made for Arensberg; Etude pour les Joueurs d'Echecs, a charcoal and ink study for the painting [15.6.1912] and Vierge, No.2 [7.8.1912].
Ephemerides
Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase (No.3) 1916
In 1916, Marcel Duchamp recreated his Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) for his patrons Louise and Walter Arensberg, who had coveted the notorious painting since seeing it at the Armory Show in New York three years earlier. Given that the original was now owned by a San Francisco art dealer who did not want to part with it, Duchamp had a commercial photography studio enlarge a postcard image of the work to match the proportions of the original canvas. The colossal photograph was then meticulously retouched by the artist in a wide variety of mediums, including pencil, ink, watercolor, and pastel, to replicate the crisply delineated forms of the original composition.
Marcel Duchamp Study for Portrait of Chess Players 1911
Marcel Duchamp Virgin (No.2) 1912
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