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Marcel Duchamp. 1887-1968
Jacques Villon's etching of his younger brother reflects the moment when Marcel Duchamp's reputation began to eclipse Villon's own. Villon had nurtured his brother's artistic ambitions, enabling his participation in the 1913 Armory Show; Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, the most notorious work in the show, was largely the reason for the exhibition's great success. In 1967 Duchamp explained how he came to be invited to the Armory Show: "Walter Pach . . . had come to France in 1910, and he made friends with my brothers, through whom we met. Then, in 1912, when he was entrusted with the task of gathering paintings for that show, he saved a lot of room for the three of us."
Jacques Villon, 1953 |