DUCHAMP (Marcel). Photographic portrait. Photo by Michel Waldberg with label on the back (circa 1958-1959), in a print endorsed by Michel Waldberg himself in 2004, size 19,6 x 19,6 cm. Beautiful photograph by his friend the writer Michel Waldberg (1940-2012), where Marcel Duchamp is represented in his studio of 11 rue Larrey, standing in profile in front of "the door never opened never closed". Attached is a certificate signed by Corinne Waldberg, indicating, among other things, that this photograph was reproduced in issue no. 7 of Étant donné (Baby, Association pour l'étude de Marcel Duchamp, 2006), and, reframed, in the catalog for the exhibition By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy held at the Pasadena Art Museum in October-November 1963.

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