Art Institute of Chicago

Bottle Rack (Porte-Bouteilles)

Marcel Duchamp · 1914/1959

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist; sold to Robert Rauschenberg through the American Federation of the Arts, c. 1959-60; bequeathed to the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; sold through Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2017.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

New York, American Federation of the Arts, Art and the Found Object, Jan. 12–Feb. 6, 1959, no. cat.; Williamstown, Williams College, Feb. 22–Mar. 15; Bloomfield Hills, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Apr. 8–28; Arts Club of Chicago, May 22–June 17; University of Notre Dame, July 1–21; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Sept. 18–Oct. 18; Poughkeepsie, Vassar College, Nov. 4–24; Waltham, MA., Brandeis University, Goldfarb Library, Dec. 15, 1959–Jan. 15, 1960.
New York, Museum of Modern Art, The Art of Assemblage, Oct. 4–Nov. 12, 1961, cat. 75; Dallas Museum of Contemporary Arts, Jan. 9–Feb. 11, 1962; San Francisco Museum of Art, Mar. 5–Apr. 15, 1962.
Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, Marcel Duchamp: A Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 8–Nov. 3, 1963, cat. 54.
Miami, Art Museum, Florida International University, The Marcel Duchamp Exhibition, Sept. 20–Oct. 16, 1985, cat. 17.
Houston, Menil Collection, Surrealism: Selections from the Menil Collection, June 7, 1987–Oct. 24, 1988, no cat.
Cologne, Ludwig Museum, Besides, It’s Always Other People Who Die: Marcel Duchamp and the Avant–Garde Since 1950, Jan. 15–Mar. 6, 1988, no cat. no.
Basel, Museum Jean Tinguely, Marcel Duchamp, Mar. 20–June 30, 2002, cat. 38.
Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg, Sept. 4–2005–Jan. 8, 2006, cat. 7.
London, Victoria and Albert Museum, Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design, Mar. 29–Jul. 22, 2007, cat 2.15; Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Sept. 29, 2007–Jan. 6, 2008; Bilbao, Guggenheim Museum, Mar. 3–Sept. 7, 2008; Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario, May 9–Aug. Aug 30, 2009.
Madrid, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, New Realisms: 1957–1962: Object Strategies between Readymade and Spectacle, Jun. 16–Oct. 4, 2010, no cat. no.
New York, Gagosian Gallery, The Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg, Nov. 3–Dec. 23, 2011, no cat. no.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dancing around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg and Duchamp, Oct. 30, 2012–Jan. 21, 2013; London, Barbican Art Gallery, Feb. 14–June 9, 2013, no cat. no.

Literature

Published references

William S. Seitz, ed., The Art of Assemblage, exh. cat. (New York: Museum of Modern Art and Doubleday, 1961), 46, 47 (ill.), 158, cat. 75, as Bottle Dryer, 1960.
Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, Marcel Duchamp: A Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 8–Nov. 3, 1963, n.p., cat. no. 54 (not ill.).
Florida International University Art Museum, The Marcel Duchamp Exhibition, exh. cat. (Miami: Florida International University Press, 1985), n.p., cat. 17 (ill.), as Bottle Dryer.
Alfred M. Fischer and Dieter Daniels, eds., Übrigens sterben immer die anderen: Marcel Duchamp und die Avantgarde seit 1950, exh. cat. (Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 1988), 74, 75, 78 (ill.), 317, no cat. no., as Flaschentrockner, 1960, New York.
Arturo Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, vol. 2, 3rd rev. ed. (New York: Delano Greenidge Editions, 1997), 615, cat. 306C (ill., detail).
Museum Jean Tinguely Basel, Marcel Duchamp, exh. cat. (Basel: Museum Jean Tinguely and Hatje Cantz, 2002), 29 (ill.), 72-73 (color ill.), cat. 38, 210, as Porte-Bouteilles (Bottle Dryer [Bottlerack]), 1960.
Francis Naumann and Thomas Girst, eds., Aftershock: The Legacy of the Readymade in Post-War and Contemporary American Art, exh. cat. (New York: Dickinson Roundell, Inc., 2003), 8, fig. 1 (ill.), as Bottle Rack, 1914/1960.
Susan Davidson and David White, eds., Rauschenberg, exh. cat. (Ferrara: Ferrara Arte, 2004), 62, fig. 31 (color ill.), 63, as Scolabottiglie, 1961, quarta versione.
Dorothy Kosinski, ed., Dialogues: Duchamp, Cornell, Johns, Rauschenberg, exh. cat. (Dallas: Dallas Museum of Art and New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005), 12 (color ill.), cat. 7, 102, as Bottle Dryer (Bottlerack), c. 1960.
Ghislaine Wood, ed., Surreal Things: Surrealism and Design, exh. cat. (London: Victoria and Albert Museum; New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2007), 35, cat. 2.15 (color ill.), as Porte-Bouteilles (Bottle Rack), 1914/1960.
Carlos Basualdo and Erica F. Battle, eds., Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Johns, Rauschenberg, and Duchamp, exh. cat. (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012), 493 (color ill.), no cat. no., as Bottlerack, 1960 (replica of 1914 original).
Robert Storr, ed., Selections from the Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg, exh. cat. (New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2012), endpapers (ill.), 21, fig. 8 (color ill., detail), 66, 67 (color ill.), no cat. no, 363 (ill.), as Porte-bouteilles (Bottle Rack), 1960 (after 1914 original).

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