LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas laid down on board

Measurements:

29.88 in. (75.90 cm.) (height) by 25.98 in. (66.00 cm.) (width)

Markings:

signed, dated and inscribed '1923/Marcel Duchamp by Florine Stettheimer' (lower left)--inscribed 'Rrose Selavy' (upper right)--signed and dated again and inscribed with title 'Portrait of/Marcel Duchamp-Rose Sélavy' (on the backing board)

Exhibited:

New York, Museum of Modern Art, Twentieth Century Portraits, December 9, 1942-January 24, 1943, pp. 24, 144 (as Marcel Duchamp and Rose Selavy). New York, Museum of Modern Art, Florine Stettheimer, October 1-November 17, 1946, pp. 27, 43, 45, 54, illustrated (as Portrait of Marcel Duchamp). Chicago, Illinois, Arts Club of Chicago, Exhibition of Paintings by Florine Stettheimer, January 3-25, 1947. San Francisco, California, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Exhibition of Paintings by Florine Stettheimer, 1947. Hartford, Connecticut, Wadsworth Atheneum, Florine Stettheimer and the Gay Twenties, January 9-28, 1948. Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College Art Gallery, Florine Stettheimer Exhibition, January 1949. New York, Durlacher Brothers Gallery, Portraits by Florine Stettheimer, March 1951. Northampton, Massachusetts, Smith College Museum of Art, Paintings by Florine Stettheimer, March 3-21, 1952. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York, Museum of Modern Art; Chicago, Illinois, Art Institute of Chicago, Marcel Duchamp, September 21, 1973-May 5, 1974, p. 222, illustrated (as Portrait of Marcel Duchamp). Boston, Massachusetts, Institute of Contemporary Art; San Antonio, Texas, Marion Koogler McNay Institute; Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar College Art Gallery, Florine Stettheimer: Still Lifes, Portraits and Pageants, 1910 to 1942, March 4-November 9, 1980, no. 18, fig. 12, illustrated (as Portrait of Marcel Duchamp). Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Group Portrait: The First American Avant-Garde, May 10-November 3, 1991 (as Portrait of Marcel Duchamp). Katonah, New York, Katonah Museum of Art, Friends and Family: Portraiture in the World of Florine Stettheimer, September 19-November 28, 1993, pp. 8-9, 23, fig. 5, illustrated (as Marcel Duchamp). New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Florine Stettheimer: Manhattan Fantastica, July 13-November 5, 1995, pp. 12, 48, 57, 87-88, 139, illustrated (as Portrait of Duchamp). New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York, November 21, 1996 - February 23, 1997, pp. 167, 279, 295, illustrated (as Portrait of Marcel Duchamp). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, circa 2001, on loan. Santa Fe, New Mexico, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum; Des Moines, Iowa, Des Moines Art Center; Chicago, Illinois, Terra Museum of American Art, Debating American Modernism: Stieglitz, Duchamp, and the New York Avant-Garde, January 24-November 30, 2003, pp. 27, 76, fig. 26, illustrated. New York, The Jewish Museum; Boston, Massachusetts, Boston College, Chestnut Hill and New Center for Arts and Culture, Jewish Women and Their Salons: The Power of Conversation, March 4-December 4, 2005, p. 134, fig. 139, illustrated (as Portrait of Marcel Duchamp). Washington, D.C., National Portrait Gallery, Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture, March 27-August 2, 2009, pp. 28, 51-52, 162-163, 302, pl. 22, illustrated (as Marcel Duchamp). Katonah, New York, Katonah Museum of Art, Eye to I..3,000 Years of Portraits, October 27, 2013-February 16, 2014 (as Marcel Duchamp). Munich, Germany, Lenbachhaus, Florine Stettheimer, September 27, 2014 - January 4, 2015. New York, The Jewish Museum, Florine Stettheimer: Painting Poetry, May 5-September 24, 2017, pp. 35, 112-13, 157, illustrated

Literature:

M. Hartley, 'The Paintings of Florine Stettheimer,' Creative Art, vol. 9, July 1931, p. 22, illustrated (as Marcel Duchamp and Rosa Selavy). View, The Modern Magazine, vol. 5, no. 1, March 1945, p. 22, illustrated (as Portrait of Marcel Duchamp). H. McBride, 'Florine Stettheimer: A Reminiscence,' View, vol. 5, no. 3, October 1945, pp. 13-15. M. Breuning, 'Florine Stettheimer Exhibition of Portraits at Durlacher Gallery,' Art Digest, vol. 25, March 15, 1951, p. 17. H. McBride, 'Florine Stettheimer Exhibition at Durlacher Gallery,' Art News, vol. 50, March 1951, p. 51. 'Coast-to-Coast Notes: Exhibition at Smith College Museum of Art,' Art Digest, vol. 26, March 15, 1951, p. 15. P. Tyler, Florine Stettheimer: A Life in Art, New York, 1963, pp. 41, 69, 71, 117, 127, 165, illustrated (as Portrait of Marcel Duchamp). H.M. Davis, Florine Stettheimer: An Exhibition of Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, Gift of the Ettie Stettheimer Estate, exhibition catalogue, New York, 1973, p. 7. J. Mallin, 'Chelsea Treasures: In Search of Virgil Thomson's Holy Grails,' Avenue, vol. 15, no. 1, August 1990, p. 21. F.M. Naumann, New York Dada, 1915-23, New York, 1994, p. 154, illustrated (as Portrait of Marcel Duchamp). B.J. Bloemink, The Life and Art of Florine Stettheimer, New Haven, Connecticut, 1995, pp. 143-46, 265n39, fig. 81, illustrated (as Portrait of Marcel Duchamp). N. Sawelson-Gorse, ed., Women in Dada: Essays on Sex, Gender, and Identity, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1995, p. 502 (as Portrait of Duchamp). S.J. Orr, Selections from the American Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, Springfield, Massachusetts, 1999, p. 171n8. S. Fillin-Yeh, ed., Dandies: Fashion and Finesse in Art and Culture, New York, 2001, p. 136. M. Brennan, Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2001, p. 290n58. E.L. Doss, Twentieth-Century American Art, Oxford, England, 2002, p. 58, fig. 25, illustrated (as Portrait of Marcel Duchamp). W.H. Bailey, Defining Edges: A New Look at Picture Frames, New York, 2002, p. 65, illustrated (as Portrait of Duchamp). J. Condra, The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing Through World History, Westport, Connecticut, 2008, p. 121. B. Bradley, 'A little game between 'I' and 'Me': Marcel Duchamp, Chess, and New York Dada,' Southeastern College Art Conference Review, January 2011, fig. 8, illustrated. C. Cros, Marcel Duchamp, London, 2013, p. 44. E. Burns, ed., The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Carl Van Vechten, 1913-1946, New York, 2013, p. 67n6. 'Picture the Scene: Statements on Florine Stettheimer by Tomma Abts, Birgit Megerle, Silke Otto-Knapp, Dan Fox and Jan Verwoert,' Frieze d/e, vol. 16, September-November 2014, illustrated (as Portrait of Marcel Duchamp). N. Tessler, Flowers and Towers: Politics of Identity in the Art of the American 'New Woman,' Cambridge, England, 2015, p. 116n82. V. Thomson, Virgil Thomson: The State of Music & Other Writings, New York, 2016, n.p. P. Schjeldahl, 'The Art World; The Roaring Stetties,' The New Yorker, May 15, 2017, p. 91. M.J. Abrams, 'Exhibitions. Florine Stettheimer, New York and Toronto,' Burlington Magazine, vol. 159, September 2017, p. 759

Provenance:

The artist. Ettie Stettheimer, sister of the above. Virgil Thomson, New York. Estate of the above. Sotheby's, New York, 29 November 1990, lot 101, sold by the above. Acquired by the late owner from the above