Artwork Details
signed in pencil, below image, L.L.: "Jacques Villon"; in pencil, below image, L.R.: "Marcel Duchamp" | inscribed in pencil, below image, L.C.: "197/200"
Accession NumberGift of Lester G. McAllister
CopyrightPrints, Drawings, and Photographs
Color PaletteThis print is based on a 1912 painting by Duchamp, who reduced his “bride” to a dehumanized, mechanized abstraction in a typically provocative jab at established art norms. The etcher, Jacques Villon, was Duchamp’s brother.
The Bride was a companion painting to Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, the furor-inducing canvas that scandalized New York audiences at the 1913 Armory Show. In spite of the outrage, Duchamp sold four paintings, which encouraged him to immigrate to the US in 1915. He connected with adventurous collector Katherine Dreier and the experimental painter Man Ray, and together they established the Société Anonyme in 1920 to promote the avant-garde.
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