2026.02.09
first and last . . . personalized jewelry
they say every picture tells a story
St. John Neumann and edelweiss reliquaries, etc.
Lit Brothers box and first grade me
Oma's München souvenir box and it's now and forever contents
2025.02.09
Portrait of Mary Boone
451 Rhawn Gallery Mary Boone's 180 Hours of Community Service hour 4
2024.02.09
 
 
pages from Contrast to the Fictitious Blonde
2017.02.09
it looks nothing like this now
2003.02.09
Re: "cohabit"
40 thieves
or
Napoleon at St. Helena
What the mighty one did in exile, one would suppose.
Solitary sculpture on my kitchen table with almost every meal (since 1989).
two full decks, nice tableau
Have I yet to exceed the number of games he played?
And the award for laziest reenactment of a fallen French emperor goes too...
Oh, fame at last
1965.02.09
1965. Tuesday, New York City
"Thank you for the book, which I read with delight (and pride)," writes Marcel to Robert Lebel, referring to La Double Vue [10.12.1964].
Concerning Lebel's request on behalf of Alexandre Iolas, who would like to organize Duchamp's first one-man show in Paris, Marcel replies, "Nothing doing," and goes on to explain that although the Museum of Modern Art might participate, Philadelphia will not lend to a gallery outside America. "But the worst is that the whole Ekstrom exhibition [13.1.1965] (the catalogue of which you have [26.1.1965]) is now the property of Mary Sisler, a newcomer among the brood of collectors." Adding (with slight exaggeration) that there is not a single piece which belonged to either Gustave Candel or Henri Pierre Roché left in France, Marcel says that the show will now be touring [24.1.1965]: "A real merry-go-round."
Ephemerides
1951.02.09
1951. Friday, New York City
The Arensbergs are delighted to have the opportunity of purchasing the portrait of Dr Dumouchel, [28.1.1951] and Marcel replies: "I am very glad because it is again a painting which expresses some of my new intentions at the time." As Dumouchel lives in Nice during the winter and the painting is at Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire, Marcel promises to enquire whether Lefebvre-Foinet can organize transport now or whether they will have to wait until the end of March when Dumouchel returns to Saint-Cyr. In any case Marcel would prefer the shipment to go directly to Hollywood: "I am sure the canvas needs the good care of Miss Adler," he writes, "and also I would like you to live with it,"
Replying to their question about the colour photograph [24.6.1950] of Jeune Homme triste dans un Train [17.2.13], Marcel confirms that he ordered it in September before leaving for Paris: "Since that, nothing happened!" He promises to write to the photographer again.
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To Dr Dumouchel, Duchamp reports that he is "rather thin--prostate the same as twenty years ago", but tells his old friend, "I suffer no more no less from it [11.9.1929]." As for his recent visit to France [26.11.1950], Duchamp says: "What I saw of Paris convinced me to return here where I live like a false hermit, delighted, moreover, by the little sides of life, to breath, to be warm, etc. I have become a great lover of milk [15.7.1920] which in my opinion has been my saving for the eight years that I have been here."
Regarding the painting which Dumouchel has agreed to sell to the Arensbergs, Duchamp writes: "I don't remember if I told you that the Arensberg Collection has been given to the Philadelphia Museum [27.12.1950]--so it's there that we will repose together, as far as the subject of immortality is concerned,"
Ephemerides
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