Portrait of Marcel Duchamp
Jean Joseph Crotti, French (born Switzerland), 1878 - 1958
Geography:
Probably made in France, Europe
Date:
Early 1950sMedium:
Graphite and charcoal on off-white wove paperDimensions:
Sheet: 21 1/2 x 13 5/8 inches (54.6 x 34.6 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
2001-49-2Credit Line:
125th Anniversary Acquisition. Gift of C. K. Williams, II, 2001
Probably made in France, Europe
Date:
Early 1950sMedium:
Graphite and charcoal on off-white wove paperDimensions:
Sheet: 21 1/2 x 13 5/8 inches (54.6 x 34.6 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, ParisCuratorial Department:
Prints, Drawings, and PhotographsObject Location:
Currently not on view
Accession Number:2001-49-2Credit Line:
125th Anniversary Acquisition. Gift of C. K. Williams, II, 2001
Jean Crotti, the brother-in-law of Marcel Duchamp, moved to New York from Paris in 1914 and rapidly became involved in the Dada movement. His first Dada work was a striking portrait sculpture of Duchamp made of metal and wire with glass eyes. The sculpture was lost or destroyed, but a photograph of it by Man Ray, this drawing, and another drawing in the Museum of Modern Art, New York, survive, along with Crotti's description of the sculpture as "an absolute expression of my idea of Marcel Duchamp. Not my idea of how he looks, so much as my appreciation of the amiable character that he IS."
