2025.12.02
Constantin Brancusi Mademoiselle Pogany [I] 1912 Philadelphia Art Museum
So, 92 years ago today, Duchamp let Brancusi know that Mademoiselle Pogany [I] was sold for 1500USD to 23-year-old Philadelphian, Henry P. McIlhenny. "McIlhenny served as a curator of the Philadelphia Museum of Art from 1939 to 1964 and chairman of the board in 1976. His older sister Bernice McIlhenny Wintersteen was president of the museum in the 1960s. ... McIlhenny died on May 11, 1986 "with no immediate survivors" and left his entire estate to the Philadelphia Museum of Art."* Hence, I assumed Mademoiselle Pogany [I] was now part of the Philadelphia Art Museum's collection, as indeed it is, yet the museum's website credits Mademoiselle Pogany [I] as a "Gift of Mrs. Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee, 1933." I wonder what the full and/or real story is here. And, I also wonder if anyone has researched and documented Duchamp's 'career' as an art dealer.
* wikipedia
2024.12.02
 
451 Rhawn Gallery
 
only a fraction of the pages written by Otto George Lauf
2022.12.02 21:52 SL
It's another cloudy text night.
2022.12.03 11:27 HW
Beautiful and Operatic
2022.12.03 11:29 SL
Brunhilde meets Wolfhilde
2022.12.03 11:33 HW
LOL
2019.12.02
11:22
2017.12.02
14:15
Virtual Painting 483
2005.12.02
Consumerism and Monumentality
I agree that there is a kind of hegemony operating within architecture today (and definitely since the Modern Movement/International Style), but architecture wasn't always that way. Most of architectures' histories are like languages' histories in that they were all tied/related to specific places on the planet and reflected the culture of those places.
Reflecting on what presently constitutes architectural "history," perhaps architecture is now a world trade commodity more than anything else.
Is the next big thing to mix up the fashion brands? Wear your Foster pants with Woods belt over Eisenman panties?
2002.12.02
The Self Portrait Regarding Duchamp
digital text: all the Lauf text posted at the Duchamp Bulletin Board online from 10 July to 11 November 2002
The Talking Back at Artforum Self Portrait
digital text: all the Lauf text posted at the TALKBACK at Artforum online from 9 November to at least 2 December 2002
Re: game talk
Is it too much to ask that "DuChamp" never appear here again, and that the artist Marcel Duchamp's name is represented here correctly from now on?
Check out Duchamp's own signature...
1933.12.02 Saturday New York City
"[Mlle] Pogany sold for $1,500 to H. P. McIlhenny," writes Duchamp hasily to Brancusi on a page torn from an engagement book. "All New York is talking of the exhibition... I am going to see [Albert C.] Barnes tomorrow in Philadelphia," continues Marcel. "If he buys that will be serious!"
Ephemerides
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