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Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Joseph Stella, Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, c. 1923-24

Joseph Stella Italian, American, 1877-1946

Portrait of Marcel Duchamp, c. 1923-24
Silverpoint and oil on paper
18½ x 16½ inches
47 x 41.9 cm
Signed at lower right: Joseph Stella
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During World War I, Joseph Stella began attending the famed salons of Walter Arensberg in New York, where he encountered leading figures of the avant-garde, including Marcel Duchamp. Over the...
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During World War I, Joseph Stella began attending the famed salons of Walter Arensberg in New York, where he encountered leading figures of the avant-garde, including Marcel Duchamp. Over the next six years, Stella worked closely with the Dada artist, who inspired him to experiment in a range of materials. In this portrait of his friend, Stella used silverpoint, an antiquated preindustrial technique chosen expressly for its existence prior to the devastating and destructive technology used during World War I. While other modernists—including Otto Dix, Marsden Hartley, and John Storrs—also experimented with this unusual medium, Stella was by far the most prolific.

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Provenance

The artist;

[Barbara Mathes Gallery Inc., New York]; to
Private collection, acquired by at least 1994 and until the present

Exhibitions

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Joseph Stella, April 22–October 9, 1994, no. 145
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Brandywine Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature, October 15, 2022–September 24, 2023 (exhibited in West Palm Beach and Atlanta only)

Literature

Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994, p. 274, no. 145, illus. p. 122
Stephanie Mayer Heydt, Ellen E. Roberts, Karli Wurzelbacher, Ara H. Merjian, and Audrey Lewis, Joseph Stella: Visionary Nature, Atlanta: High Museum of Art, 2022, p. 203, pl. 18, illus. in color p. 82
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