Portrait de Madame Marthe Hervieu

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Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968)
Portrait de Madame Marthe Hervieu
signed and dated 'Marcel Duchamp 15.' (lower right)
ink wash, ink, graphite and colored pencil on paper
18 7/8 x 12 3/8 in. (47.8 x 31.3 cm.)
Executed in 1915.

Provenance

Mme Marthe Hervieu, Paris, gift of the artist, 1915 until at least 1959
Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles
Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1971

Literature

R. Lebel, Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1959, p. 167, no. 123.
A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1969, no. 223.
A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 1997, vol. II, p. 619, no. 309 (illustrated).
A. Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, New York, 2000, p. 619, no. 309 (illustrated).

Exhibited

San Francisco, Legion of Honor, Graphics from Four Bay Area Collections, 1973.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, October 2000-January 2001, pp. 304 and 362, no. 77, pl. 167 (illustrated).

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Jacqueline Matisse Monnier and the Association Marcel Duchamp have confirmed the authenticity of this work.

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Jacqueline Matisse Monnier and the Association Marcel Duchamp have confirmed the authenticity of this work.

The artist gifted the present drawing to Mme Hervieu in 1915 before he left Paris for New York. He also gave her a key to access his Paris studio. At the time, Mme Hervieu was dating Dr. Raymond Dumouchel, one of Duchamp's life-long friends and an old classmate from their childhood spent in Rouen.

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