Marcel DuchampFrench, 1887–1968The Large Glass
May one see it?
Not receiving at present
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- Source
- The museum
Particulars
- Accession number
- 91.74.16
In the catalog
Sources
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- Image: Whitney Museum of American Art — © the artist or rights holder
Meanwhile, in the life of Marcel Duchamp
The whole life1963
First retrospective, in Pasadena
Curator Walter Hopps organised Duchamp’s first retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum; there Julian Wasser photographed him playing chess with the nude model Eve Babitz, an image the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art described as among the key documentary images of American modern art.
28 June 1964 – 6 October 1964
Exhibition: Documenta III
1966
Retrospective at the Tate Gallery
The artist and collaborator Richard Hamilton organised a retrospective of Duchamp’s work at the Tate Gallery in London.
1967
“Les Duchamp” in Rouen
As the last surviving member of the family of artists, he helped organise in Rouen the exhibition “Les Duchamp: Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp”.
2 October 1968
The last evening: dinner with Man Ray and Robert Lebel
He died suddenly and peacefully in the early morning at his home in Neuilly-sur-Seine: after dining with his friends Man Ray and Robert Lebel he retired at 1:05 a.m., collapsed in his studio and died of heart failure. His grave in Rouen bears the epitaph “Besides, it is always the others who die”.
2 October 1968
Died
