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...Stratford (Va.) home; of a stroke; in Munich, Germany. Kimball became director when the museum was only partially built, developed it into one of America's best, acquired the Gallatin Collection (e.g., Picasso's Three Musicians), the $2,000,000 Arensberg Collection (e.g., Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase...
Villon's father, a stern Norman notary named Duchamp, sent him to Paris to study law. The youth took up painting instead, changed his name to conceal the fact. Later, two brothers and a sister joined him on Montmartre. One, a cubist sculptor, called himself Duchamp-Villon. Painters Suzanne and Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase} Duchamp braved their father's wrath by using the family name. Marcel was by far the most successful artist of the family, but he was bored by his work. He finally gave up painting for chess...
...first exhibition in Paris in 1932, Calder asked artist friend Marcel Duchamp what he should call the new moving metal sculpture. Duchamp replied, "Mobiles." In the twenty three years since, "Mobiles" have all but replaced chandeliers, and their originator has become the first native American sculptor to win international recognition...
...history. It led to Manhattan's first independent show (no jury, no prizes) and paved the way for the 1913 Armory show, a landmark event that first gave the U.S. public the full impact of Europe's postimpressionist, fauve and cubist painters (sensation of the show: Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase...
Deciding that "psychology is not everything," Ray moved to Paris, was cheerfully painting a still life of flowers the day Hitler arrived. Ray managed to escape on a freighter, along with Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp, arrived in Manhattan in 1942. Soon after, Ray found his paintings turning into abstractions, called on Duchamp for advice. The result: Duchamp arranged a show for Ray at Peggy Guggenheim's avant-garde gallery. Since then, Ray has lingered longer and longer over each canvas; his finished pictures with all layers dried out often weigh...