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1911, Marcel Duchamp, Nude [Sketch] / Sad Young Man in a Train -- Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice)
From the museum label: This painting originally was titled Nu (esquisse) (Nude [Sketch]). Disregarding anatomy, Duchamp realized a nude of indeterminate sex and gender, which facilitated his subsequent appropriation of the artwork as a self-portrait and his rechristening of it as Jeune homme triste dans un train (Sad Young Man in a Train). This act also may have prompted him ex post facto to insert a wooden pipe between the mechanomorphic figure's teeth, which barely is visible among the multitude of prismatic forms. Peggy Guggenheim acquired the canvas in spring 1942 from one of Duchamp's friends.
1911, Marcel Duchamp, Nude [Sketch] / Sad Young Man in a Train -- Peggy Guggenheim Collection (Venice)
From the museum label: This painting originally was titled Nu (esquisse) (Nude [Sketch]). Disregarding anatomy, Duchamp realized a nude of indeterminate sex and gender, which facilitated his subsequent appropriation of the artwork as a self-portrait and his rechristening of it as Jeune homme triste dans un train (Sad Young Man in a Train). This act also may have prompted him ex post facto to insert a wooden pipe between the mechanomorphic figure's teeth, which barely is visible among the multitude of prismatic forms. Peggy Guggenheim acquired the canvas in spring 1942 from one of Duchamp's friends.