Portrait of Marcel Duchamp Artist: Antoine Pevsner (French, 1886–1962)

1926

Modern and Contemporary Art

Not on view
Medium

Cellulose nitrate on copper with iron

Dimensions

25 3/4 × 37 in. (65.4 × 94 cm)

Credit Line

Gift of Collection Société Anonyme

Accession Number

1941.628

Culture

French

Period

20th century

Classification

Sculpture

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Bibliography
  • Barbara Zabel, Calder's Portraits: A New Language, exh. cat. (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 2011), 10, fig. 8
  • Lisa R. Brody et al., "Unstable Works of Art," Yale University Art Gallery Bulletin (2010), 131–33, fig. 2–4
  • Bertrand Lavedrine, Rachel Rivenc, and Michael Schilling, "POPART: An International Research Project on the Conservation of Plastics," Conservation Perspectives: The GCI Newsletter 24, no. 2 (Fall 2009), 10, ill
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  • Robert L. Herbert, Eleanor S. Apter, and Elise K. Kenney, The Société Anonyme and the Dreier Bequest at Yale University: A Catalogue Raisonné (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1984), 517, no. 544, ill
  • Ruth L. Bohan, The Société Anonyme's Brooklyn Exhibition: Katherine Dreier and Modernism in America (Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan Research Press, 1982), 153, fig. 7
  • Collection of the Société Anonyme: Museum of Modern Art 1920 (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Art Gallery, 1950), 150-51, ill
Object copyright
Antoine Pevsner / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris
In Copyright
Additional information

Object/Work type

portraits

Inscriptions

Inscribed on celluloid l.r. "AP"; inscribed on copper backing l.l. "Pevsner"; formerly inscribed on celluloid l.l. "Pevsner"

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