MARCEL DUCHAMP De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise), série F, $350,000–450,000
MARCEL DUCHAMP Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, $80,000–100,000
IRVING PENN Marcel Duchamp, New York, April 30, $30,000–40,000
MIKE BIDLO Gilded Bottle Rack (Not Duchamp Bottle Rack 1914), $10,000–12,000
MARCEL DUCHAMP AND JACQUES VILLON La Mariée (The Bride), by Jacques Villon, $25,000–30,000
RICHARD PETTIBONE Bicycle Wheel 1913, $25,000–30,000
MARCEL DUCHAMP The Chess Players, $18,500–22,500
MARCEL DUCHAMP De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise), série F, $350,000–450,000
MARCEL DUCHAMP Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, $80,000–100,000
IRVING PENN Marcel Duchamp, New York, April 30, $30,000–40,000
MIKE BIDLO Gilded Bottle Rack (Not Duchamp Bottle Rack 1914), $10,000–12,000
MARCEL DUCHAMP AND JACQUES VILLON La Mariée (The Bride), by Jacques Villon, $25,000–30,000
RICHARD PETTIBONE Bicycle Wheel 1913, $25,000–30,000
MARCEL DUCHAMP The Chess Players, $18,500–22,500
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AuctionAfter 1923, Marcel Duchamp was largely considered an artist who had stopped making art to devote his life to playing chess, but as is now known, he never fully abandoned the idea of producing art. His artistic production may very well have been curtailed by his activities as a chess player, but it had clearly not ceased. The degree to which Duchamp perpetuated the rumor of his inactivity as an artist is difficult to say. At the time, we know that he did nothing to contest it, although years later he would disavow ever having made such a claim. Among the alternatives he explored was to replicate earlier examples of his own work, reproducing it in sufficient numbers to make it more accessible to a larger audience. He produced prints, designed book covers, posters and a suitcase containing small-scale replicas of his work, all of which are featured in this sale.
The title selected for this sale—“Duchamp & Company”—were words used by Alfred Stieglitz in a letter to Georgia O’Keeffe in describing the people who brought the original 1917 Fountain (urinal) to his gallery to be photographed. It is here used to refer to a host of mainly contemporary artists who are consciously influenced by him and feature in this auction, including Man Ray, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Pettibone, Mike Bidlo, Sherrie Levine, John Baldessari and Joseph Kosuth.
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