Art Institute of Chicago

Broken and Restored Multiplication

Suzanne Duchamp · 1918–19

Provenance

Ownership history

The artist, Paris, until at least 1921 [Paris 1921 and Anquinet 2017]; probably with the Duchamp family until the late 1940s. Enrico Donati (1909-2008), New York, possibly through Sidney Janis, New York, late 1940s [this and the following according to Jan. 7, 2004, phone conversation between Enrico Donati and Stephanie D’Alessandro; notes in curatorial object file] until at least 1967 [Rouen 1967]; given to his daughter, Marina Donati, Paris. René-Jean Ullmann (1932-2018), Paris, by 1980 [Vergine 1980] and until at least 1986 [verso label]. Galerie 1900–2000, Paris, by 1994 [verso label]. Rachel Adler Gallery, New York, by 1994; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, Nov. 14, 1994.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

Paris, Grand Palais, Salon des Artistes Indépendants, Jan. 28–Feb. 29, 1920, cat. 4891.
Paris, Galerie Montaigne, Exposition des Oeuvres de Suzanne Duchamp et Jean Crotti, Apr. 4-16, 1921, cat. 5.
New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Dada, Apr. 15-May 9, 1953, cat. 152.
Rouen, Musée des Beaux Arts, Les Duchamps: Jacques Villon, 1875-1963, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1876-1918, Marcel Duchamp, 1887- , Suzanne Duchamp, 1886-1963, Apr. 15–June 1 1967, no cat. no.
Milan, Palazzo Reale, L’Altra Metà dell’Avanguardia, 1910-1940, 1980, no cat. no.
Bern, Kunsthalle Bern, Tabu Dada, Jean Crotti & Suzanne Duchamp, 1915-1922, Jan. 2-Feb. 27, 1983, no. 61; Paris, Centre Pompidou, Apr. 6-May 30, 1983; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, July 29-Oct. 16, 1983; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Dec. 1983-Jan. 1984.
Los Angeles, County Museum of Art, The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985, Nov. 23-Mar. 8, 1987, no. 35; Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Apr. 17-July 19, 1987; The Hague, Haags Gemeentemuseum, Sept. 1-Nov. 22, 1987.
Zurich, Kunsthaus Zurich, Dada Global, Aug. 12-Nov. 6, 1994, cat. 436.
Columbus, OH, Wexner Center for the Arts, Staging Surrealism: A Succession of Collections, Sept. 19, 1997-Jan. 4, 1998, no cat. no.
Paris, Centre Pompidou, Dada: Paris, Washington, New York, Oct. 5, 2005–Jan. 9, 2006, no cat. no; Washington, D.C., Feb. 19–May 14, 2006, cat. 256; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, June 18–Sept. 11, 2006.
New York City, New Museum, Judy Chicago: Herstory, Oct. 12, 2023-Mar. 3, 2024, no cat. no.
Remagen, Germany, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, der die DADA. Regendering dada, July 7, 2024-Jan. 12, 2025, no cat. no.

Literature

Published references

Société des Artistes Indépendants, 31e Exposition au Grand-Palais des Champs-Elysées, exh. cat. (Paris: Société des Artistes Indépendants, 1920), 187, cat. 4891 (not ill.).
Galerie Montaigne, Exposition des Oeuvres de Suzanne Duchamp et Jean Crotti, exh. cat. (Paris: Galerie Montaigne, 1921), n.p., cat. 5 (not ill.).
Simonne Ratel, "Suzanne Duchamp et Jean Crotti, apôtres de la 'peinture pure,'" Comœdia (Sept. 16, 1926), 1 (not ill.).
Sidney Janis Gallery, Dada, 1916-1953, exh. brochure (New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953), cat. 152 (not ill.).
Herta Wescher, “Collages and the Breakdown of Optical Unity,” in Graphis: International Journal for Graphic and Applied Art, Vol. 11, no. 57 (Jan. 1955), 52 (ill.).
Nane Bettex-Cailler, ed., Les Cahiers d’Art–Documents, no. 56, Suzanne Duchamp (Geneva: Editions Pierre Cailler, 1957), 7 (ill.), 8.
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Les Duchamps: Jacques Villon, 1875-1963, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, 1876-1918, Marcel Duchamp, 1887- , Suzanne Duchamp, 1886-1963, exh. cat. (Rouen: Impr. Lainé, 1967), 135, no cat. no. (not ill.).
Herta Wescher, Collage, trans. Robert E. Wolf (New York: Henry N. Abrams, 1968), 166, n.p., pl. 107 (ill.), 404 as Multiplication Broken and Re-Established.
William A. Camfield and Jean-Hubert Martin, eds., Tabu Dada: Jean Crotti & Suzanne Duchamp, 1915-1922, exh. cat. (Bern: Kunsthalle Bern, 1984), 18, 36, 55, 91, cat. 61, 125 (color ill.).
Maurice Tuchman, ed., The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting, 1890-1985, exh. cat. (Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art and New York: Abbeville Press, 1986), 46, pl. 34 (color ill.), 47, 422, no cat. no.
Raimund Meyer, ed., Dada Global, exh. cat. (Zürich: Kunsthaus Zurich, 1994), n.p., cat. 436 (color ill.).
James N. Wood and Teri J. Edelstein, The Art Institute of Chicago: Twentieth-Century Painting and Sculpture (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago and New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1996), 44 (color ill.).

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