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...which, by raising a handle, is revealed a brilliantly lighted canvas by Swiss Painter Paul Klee. Another peep show, manipulated by turning a huge ship's wheel, shows a rotating exhibit of reproductions of all the works, including a miniature toilet for MEN, by screwball Surrealist Marcel Duchamp...
...circles had already read of topflight French painters touring Germany as honored guests (TIME, June 29). They got an equally surprising picture last week of the artist's life in war-torn France. Painter of the picture, done in the gayest of colors, was famed Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, whose Nude Descending A Staircase was the hottest artistic cause...
...Manhattan, after a getaway from France with the help of Hollywood friends, cheerful Duchamp was comfortably installed in Patroness Peggy Guggenheim's swank apartment. Generalized he: "The artists of Paris are flourishing." He particularized...
...Dadaist Duchamp's account of his own flight sounded like a whimsically eventful Cook's tour. He said he posed as a cheese merchant, got out of Occupied France without any trouble at all, finally got a U.S. visa in Marseille on the strength of an affidavit from a friend in Hollywood (Author Walter Conrad Arensburg, who bought his Nude Descending...
...Painter Duchamp, who once entered a shovel in an exhibition with an elaborate essay on its artistic import, plans to get himself a little studio, paint "if I can get a new idea." Meantime he is working on his "Monograph." It consists of a collection in cardboard boxes of reproductions of his works since 1910. Eventually he intends to bind the boxes in beautiful leather cases...