Bowdoin College Museum of Art | - Portrait of Marcel Duchamp by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Preview image of work. gelatin silver print, Portrait of Marcel Duchamp by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven 27420

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Portrait of Marcel Duchamp by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

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Artist

Charles Sheeler (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 7/16/1883 - 5/5/1965, New York, New York)

Title

Portrait of Marcel Duchamp by Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

Creation Date

1920

Century

early 20th century

Dimensions

8 x 6 in. (20 x 15 cm)

Classification

Photographs

Creation Place

North America, United States

Medium and Support

gelatin silver print

Credit Line

Copyright

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In addition to working as an artist’s model, jewelry designer, and enigmatic poet, Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, who married a German aristocrat in 1913, pioneered Dada found-object sculpture in the United States with Marcel Duchamp. That the assemblage depicted here includes a fishing lure, feathers, and other shiny detritus is no mistake. Freytag-Loringhoven intended this “loving cup” to attract the attentions of Duchamp, her cherished, self-appointed “Artist of the Year”. Sheeler’s two known exposures of the wineglass overflowing with springs and spangles interpret the work differently. While the first is evenly illuminated and appears more “objective”, the second, intensely spot lit, achieves a more “theatrical” effect.