BIB_ID
406045
Accession number
MA 8615.6
Creator
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.
Published
[New York], 1942 Sept. 29
Credit line
Purchased on the Heineman Fund, 2014.
Description
1 drawing.
Notes
Part of Joseph Cornell's Saint-Exupéry dossier (MA 8615), a collection of drawings and ephemera that Cornell assembled to document his friendship with Antoine and Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.
On thin paper; no watermark.
On thin paper; no watermark.
approx. 11 x 8 1/2 inches (279 x 215 mm)
Provenance
Joseph Cornell; his sister Helen Jagger; her daughter Helen Jagger Batcheller; her son Edward Batcheller.
Summary
Tiny red pencil sketch by Duchamp, signed with initials at foot of sheet, with typed note added by Joseph Cornell: "sketch of Marcel Duchamp's room / 11 Rue Larrey, drawn by M.D. / September 29, 1942. for Joseph / Cornell. 'C' marks spot where / Consuelo [de Saint-Exupéry] used to cry while Mar- / cel smoked his pipe (other circle). / Form in upper right hand corner / represents bathtub, arrows- door / that serves two rooms. / signature [with arrow pointing at Duchamp's initials]."
Medium
Red pencil
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