Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp

Katherine S. Dreier · 1918

This is Abstract Portrait of Marcel Duchamp — a painting by Katherine S. Dreier, nineteen eighteen. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days. In the picture, look for the abstract shapes.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 18 x 32" (45.7 x 81.3 cm) · Credit Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Fund

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Duplicate of The Sieves or Parasols (supplementary suite, plate 10) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1, Duplicate of The Chocolate Grinder and The Scissors (supplementary suite, plate 16) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: The Passage from Virgin to Bride, Bridge, Synchromy in Blue, The Spring, Portrait of Igor Stravinsky, Still Life Synchromy