Alexina and Marcel Duchamp papers, ca.1886-1990, n.d.

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Alexina and Marcel Duchamp papers, ca.1886-1990, n.d.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/80857279

The Alexina and Marcel Duchamp papers are comprised of Marcel Duchamp's personal papers as well as published material documenting the artist and his work which were compiled and organized by his widow, Alexina Duchamp. The collection includes approximately 800 photographs documenting Duchamp's life from his boyhood in Blainville, France through his elder years spent partially in New York City and in Cadaques, Spain; a small portion of his personal correspondence; notes for several lectures primarily delivered in the early 1960s, including some in which Duchamp comments on The Large Glass and his Readymades; various personal papers, including birth and marriage certificates, military papers, and visas; and preparatory material related to the Box in a Valise and a handful of graphic design projects. The collection also includes material generated by other individuals which were retained by Duchamp and later, his widow. This material includes transcripts of a few interviews with Duchamp conducted between 1945 and 1966 and typescripts for various articles and books about Duchamp which were sent to him by their authors for his review and comment. In many cases, correspondence with these authors is also preserved. The collection also includes ephemera and published articles on Duchamp which were seemingly collected and organized primarily by his wife, Alexina Duchamp, as much of the material postdates Duchamp's death.

18 cubic feet.

Philadelphia Museum of Art

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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...

Duchamp, Alexina.

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