Duchamps New Yorker Atelier, 246 West 73rd Street, 1920. (bron: Marta Herford, foto: Man Ray)
Atelier de Duchamp, 1917. (bron: Archives Dada)
During his lifetime, visionaire Surrealist, Cubist and Dadaist, Marcel Duchamp took residence in New York many times. In 1915, after the declaration of World War 1, he fled Europe, moving into a studio at 33 West 67th Street owned by arts patrons Louise and Walter Conrad Arensberg. The Arensbergs became lifelong friends, and rather than charge him rent for his two year stay, they traded for “Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors”, or what is known as “The Large Glass.” (which is in the collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art). This is also where, in 1917, he created the infamous readymade, “Fountain” by writing “R.Mutt 1917” on a urinal. The urinal was a standard Bedfordshire model urinal from the J. L. Mott Iron Works, 118 Fifth Avenue. Duchamp later lived at 2 other apartments before leaving in 1918. (bron: Art Nerd New York)
Geen opmerkingen:
Een reactie posten