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MARCEL DUCHAMP (1887-1968)
Study of Kneeling Nude
signed, dated and dedicated ‘à ce cher Hervieu affectueusement Duchamp. 10’ (lower right)
pen and India ink and pencil on paper
20⅛ x 11½ in. (51.1 x 29.3 cm.)
Drawn in Neuilly in 1910
Provenance
Gustave Hervieu, Paris (gift from the artist).
Marthe Hervieu, Paris (by descent from the above).
Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles.
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1971.
Literature
R. Lebel, Marcel Duchamp, trans. G.H. Hamilton, New York, 1959, p. 159, no. 59a (titled Woman (without head)).
A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1969, no. 153.
A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1997, vol. II, p. 424, no. 153 (illustrated).
A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 2000, vol. II, p. 540, no. 208 (illustrated).
Exhibited
Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York, The Museum of Modern Art and The Art Institute of Chicago, Marcel Duchamp, September 1973-May 1974, p. 26, no. 72.
Stanford University Museum of Art, Twentieth-Century Drawings from the Anderson Collection: Auguste Rodin to Elizabeth Murray, November 1988-February 1989, pp. 5 and 29, no. 3.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, pp. 361-362, no. 76 (titled Study of Kneeling Nude).
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