Lot 329
  • 329

SUZANNE DUCHAMP | Portrait de Marcel Duchamp

Estimate
1,200 - 1,500 EUR
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Description

  • Suzanne Duchamp
  • Portrait de Marcel Duchamp
  • signed Suzanne Duchamp and dated 53 (lower right); dedicated A M. Poupard-Lieussou amicalement and numbered 9/20 (lower left)
  • etching on paper
  • plate: 24 x 17,7 cm; 9 1/2  x 7 in.; sheet: 45,9 x 33 cm; 18 x 13 in.
  • Executed in 1953 in an edition of 20.

Provenance

M. Poupard-Lieussou
Sale: Hôtel Drouot, Paris, June 17, 2000, lot 185
Acquired at the above sale by Dr. Arthur Brandt

Exhibited

Boone, Turchin Center for the Arts, The Omnipotent Dream: Man Ray, Confluences and Influences, 2003, listed in the catalogue p. 34

Condition

Etching on cream wove paper, not laid down and attached to the overmount with tape in two places at the upper edge. The lower and right edges are slightly unevenly cut. There are some spots of foxing to the sheet, away from the etching, and some slight mat staining to the edges. Otherwise this work is in overall very good condition.
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Catalogue Note

The authenticity of this work has been kindly confirmed by the Association Duchamp Villon Crotti.