Portrait of Marcel Duchamp

Prints and Drawings

1953

Jacques Gaston Duchamp Villon
French, 1875-1963

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Jacques Villon
Title: Portrait of Marcel Duchamp
Place: France (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: Made 1953
Medium: Pen and black ink, with touches of white gouache, with incising, over graphite, on tan wove tracing paper
Inscriptions: Signed recto, lower left, in pen and black ink: "Jacques Villon"
Dimensions: 32.3 × 24.9 cm (12 3/4 × 9 13/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Reference Number: 2013.1040

Dessins de Jacques Villon, exh. cat. (Paris: Louis Carré, 1956), cat. 47.
Fogg Art Museum, Jacques Villon, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA: Fogg Art Museum, 1976), p. 178, no. 155b.

Providence, R. I., Annmary Brown Memorial, Brown University, “Poetry and Fact in Modern Art,” May 2–June 5, 1962.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, “Jacques Villon,” Feb.–Mar. 1964, p. 85, cat. 186 (ill.).
Art Institute of Chicago, “Drawings in Dialogue: Old Master Through Modern, The Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection,” June 3–July 30, 2006, p. 220, cat. 165 (ill.).

Sold by Albert C. Krumm; Peter H. Deitsch (1924-1970), New York, to Dorothy Braude Edinburg, Brookline, MA, 1962; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2013.

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