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DUCHAMP, MARCEL (1887-1968). Photograph inscribed and signed ("Marcel Duchamp"), by New York Times (stamp on verso), n.p., n.d. [circa 1963]. 253 x 205 mm. (10 x 8 1/8 in.) including margins. A half-length portrait of Duchamp playing chess, inscribed on the lower portion of the image: "Pour McPherson Marcel Duchamp 1963."
"He intended to scandalize and succeeded, first with Nude Descending a Staircase, then with the nonsense works of the Dada movement. Cerebral, inventive, influential, he gave up art for chess, but remains a modernist saint"--W.M.
"He intended to scandalize and succeeded, first with Nude Descending a Staircase, then with the nonsense works of the Dada movement. Cerebral, inventive, influential, he gave up art for chess, but remains a modernist saint"--W.M.