Female Fig Leaf

Marcel Duchamp · 1950

You're looking at Female Fig Leaf — a sculpture by Duchamp, nineteen fifty. Plaster — cast from a mould, cheap and provisional, and usually a stage on the way to something more permanent.

Medium Electroplated copper over plaster · Dimensions 3 1/2 x 5 1/4 x 5" (8.6 x 13.3 x 12.7 cm) · Credit Gift of Jasper Johns

Hanging beside it in The Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions: Box in a Valise (From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy), 3 Standard Stoppages

More by Marcel Duchamp here: Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?, In Advance of the Broken Arm, Network of Stoppages, Landscape, The Chess Players, The Passage from Virgin to Bride