Marcel Duchamp letters and ephemera, 1938-1982.

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Marcel Duchamp letters and ephemera, 1938-1982.

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Collection includes a letter to Salvador Dali in which Duchamp exchanges addresses of mutual acquaintances and comments on the ominous political climate in Europe (1938); 10 items of correspondence, 2 of which are from Duchamp, concerning the reproduction of one of his works for the cover of Brown's proposed Dada catalog (1965-69); postcard from Duchamp to George Maciunas (1966); announcements; and clippings of reviews and obituaries.

ca. 70 items.

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Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968

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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (French:28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of...

Dalí, Salvador, 1904-1989

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Salvador Dalí (b. May 11, 1904, Figueres, Spain–d. January 23, 1989, Figueres Spain) was a prominent Spanish surrealist artist. Dalí was a skilled draftsman, best known for the striking and bizarre images in his surrealist work. His painterly skills are often attributed to the influence of Renaissance masters. His best-known work, The Persistence of Memory, was completed in August 1931. Dalí's expansive artistic repertoire included film, sculpture, and photography, in collaboration with a range ...

Maciunas, George, 1931-1978

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