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Alfred Stieglitz

Marcel Duchamp, 1923

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Medium

palladium print

Dimensions

image (visible): 20.2 × 19.1 cm (7 15/16 × 7 1/2 in.)
mount: 52.1 × 46.4 cm (20 1/2 × 18 1/4 in.)

Credit Line

Alfred Stieglitz Collection

Accession Number

1949.3.586

Stieglitz Estate Number

38C

Key Set Number

841

Artists / Makers

Alfred Stieglitz (artist) American, 1864 - 1946

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Alfred Stieglitz

Marcel Duchamp

1923

palladium print

Key Set Number 840

Remarks

According to a letter from Charles Demuth to Stieglitz (16 April 1923, YCAL, see Key Set number 842), Stieglitz made this portrait and Key Set number 840 around the same time as Key Set numbers 842–845.

Stieglitz Collections

A corresponding print was given to the following institution(s) by Alfred Stieglitz during his lifetime, or was received or acquired from the estate:

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University, New Haven, YCAL MSS 85, box 124, folder 2472 [gelatin silver]

Lifetime Exhibitions

A print from the same negative—perhaps a photograph from the Gallery’s collection—appeared in the following exhibition(s) during Alfred Stieglitz’s lifetime:

possibly 1923, New York (no. 71, as Marcel Duchamp, 1923)
possibly 1944, Philadelphia (no. 179, as Marcel Duchamp, 1923, platinum)

Inscription

by Doris Bry, on mount, lower left, in graphite: Treated by Steichen-6/50; lower left verso: 38 C

Provenance

Georgia O'Keeffe; gift to NGA, 1949.

Associated Names

O'Keeffe, Georgia

Exhibition History

1983: Photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 3–May 8, 1983; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, June 17–August 14, 1983; The Art Institute of Chicago, October 18, 1983–January 3, 1984

1991: Group Portrait: The First American Avant-Garde, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, May 10–October 27, 1991

2009: Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, 2009

Bibliography

1983: Greenough, Sarah, and Juan Hamilton. Alfred Stieglitz: Photographs and Writings. Washington, 1983: no. 70, pl. 32.

2002: Greenough, Sarah. Alfred Stieglitz: The Key Set: The Alfred Stieglitz Collection of Photographs. Washington, 2002: vol. 2, cat. 841.

2009: Goodyear, Anne Collins, and James W. McManus, eds. Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture. Exh. cat. National Portrait Gallery, Washington, 2009.