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TIME erred grievously in its issue of July 13, or that of Aug. 31. The former places Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase in Cleveland until Oct. 4; while your last issue transports the picture to Hollywood. I am prone to believe that it remains in Cleveland, having attempted to interpret it while attending the 20th Anniversary Exhibition there last week...
Probably the most famed cubist painting in the world is Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, which now hangs in the Hollywood home of Walter Conrad Arensberg. Last week Los An-geles newshawks discovered the artist on the same premises. France's Duchamp, 49, was making his first visit to California to see once again the picture that established his reputation...
...told by most critics, the story of Artist Marcel Duchamp is the story of a very brilliant young man with nothing much to say. Born in Rouen, the son of a well-to-do lawyer, he never had to struggle for a living, saw his two older brothers become respected, hard-working artists while he loafed at Julien's art school...
...Artists Arthur B. Davies, Walter Pach and Walt Kuhn were busy organizing the famed Armory Show that was to introduce modern French painting to the U. S. Scouting for canvases, they went to the Duchamp brothers' studio, found four by youngest brother Marcel. All were cubist abstractions painted in a monotone, but quick-witted Marcel Du-champ gave them intriguing names: The King and Queen Surrounded by Swift Nudes; Chess Players; Sad Young Man on a Train; Nude Descending a Staircase...
...Marcel Duchamp has hardly painted a picture since. Carrying French cynicism to almost pathological lengths, he entered a shovel in an art exhibition at the Bourgeois Gallery in 1917 with an elaborate essay on its artistic worth, later bought a bird cage, filled it with lumps of marble, called it Why Not Sneeze? and sold it to Painter Katherine Dreier's sister. Enormously skilful with his fingers, he invented a number of mechanical and optical gadgets. From only one did he make any money. It was a series of colored disks to be spun on the turntable...