Film stills of lovers kissing. For cover of "Objects of My Affection" catalog, circa 1945

File — Box: 36, Folder: 19

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Sub-Series:

This subseries primarily contains documention of several of Duchamp's design projects for magazine and exhibition catalog covers. Of particular note are 39 film stills of lovers kissing used by Duchamp as a model for his 1945 "Objects of My Affection" catalog cover, and two photographs, one of Duchamp's French military booklet and the other of a smoking wine bottle, which document separate elements Duchamp combined in his cover for the Duchamp issue of View magazine. The subseries also includes the bookplate Duchamp designed for the Mary Reynolds Collection and a graphite diagram of a portion of Duchamp's 1913 "Bachelor Apparatus," which he presumably sketched in order to plan for the work's reproduction in "The Green Box."

Dates

circa 1945

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

Predominantly in English with some material in French.

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. David Sylvester's typescript for the article "Bicycle Parts" can only be consulted with permission of the author's estate.