Nude Seated in a Bathtub by Marcel Duchamp
Art Institute of Chicago

Nude Seated in a Bathtub

Marcel Duchamp · 1910

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. The artist, Paris; sold to H.P. Roché and Denise Renard, Paris, late 1950 [letter from Marcel Duchamp to Jacques Villon, Dec. 4, 1950, Archives Marcel Duchamp, Villiers-sous-Grez (Seine-et-Marne), repr. in Paris 2007]. Marcel Duchamp [letter from Alexina S. “Teeny” Duchamp to A. James Speyer, June 26, 1974, in curatorial object file]; bequeathed to Frank B. Hubachek, Jr. (1894-1986), Chicago, 1968 [this and the following according to letter from Frank B. Hubacheck, Jr. to Alexina S. “Teeny” Duchamp, June 18, 1974, in curatorial object file]; renounced and returned to Alexina S. “Teeny” Duchamp; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1974.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • New York, Sidney Janis Gallery, Brancusi to Duchamp, Sept. 17–Oct. 27, 1951, cat. 7.
  • New York, Sidney Janis, Marcel Duchamp, Apr 6.–May 2, 1959.
  • Pasadena, Pasadena Art Museum, Marcel Duchamp: A Retrospective Exhibition, Oct. 8–Nov. 3, 1963, cat. 8.
  • London, Tate Gallery, The Almost Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, June 18–July 31, 1966, cat. 53.
  • Paris, Musée nationale d’art moderne, Raymond Duchamp-Villon / Marcel Duchamp, June–July 1967, cat. 43.
  • Philadelphia, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Marcel Duchamp, Sept. 22–Nov. 11, 1973, checklist no. 59 (not in cat.); New York, Museum of Modern Art, Dec. 3, 1973–Feb. 10, 1974; Art Institute of Chicago, Mar. 9–Apr. 21, 1974.
  • Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Marcel Duchamp. La peinture, même, 1910–1923, Sept. 24, 2014–Jan. 5, 2015.
  • Frankfurt, Germany, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Marcel Duchamp, Apr. 2–Oct. 3, 2022, no cat.
  • Chicago, The Art Institute of Chicago, Frida Kahlo’s Month in Paris: A Friendship with Mary Reynolds, Mar. 29–July 13, 2025, not in cat.

Literature

Published references

  • Sidney Janis Gallery, 5th Anniversary Exhibition, exh. cat. (New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953), n.p., fig. 71 (ill.).
  • Robert Lebel, Marcel Duchamp (New York: 1959), p. 109, p. 18 (ill.).
  • Richard Hamilton, ed., The Almost Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, exh. cat. (London: The Arts Council of Great Britain, 1966), 22, cat. 53 (ill.).
  • Musée national d’art moderne, Raymond Duchamp-Villon / Marcel Duchamp, exh. cat. (Paris: Musée national d’art moderne, 1967), 46, cat. 43 (not ill.), as Femme nue assise dans un tub.
  • Arturo Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp (New York, 1969), 221 and 416, pl. 21 (ill.), cat. 131
  • “Public Museum News,” Art Journal 35, no. 1 (Autumn 1975), 54 (not ill.).
  • A. James Speyer, ed., 7th American Exhibition, exh. cat. (Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1982), 14 (ill.).
  • Anne Rorimer, “Michael Asher: Kontext als Inhalt,” Texte zur Kunst (Herbst 1990).
  • Dalia Judovitz, Unpacking Duchamp: Art in Transit (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995) p. 20, fig. 1 and p. 21.
  • Arturo Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp (New York: Delano Greenidge Editions, 1997), 529, cat. 183 (ill.).
  • Marielle Tabart, ed., Les carnets de l’atelier Brancusi: Brancusi & Duchamp, Regards historiques, exh. cat. (Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 2000), 57 (not ill.).
  • Paul B. Franklin, ed., Etant donné, vol. 8, Marcel Duchamp & Mary Reynolds (2007), 103 (not ill.).

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