Marcel Duchamp, the guest of honor, 76: The Pop artists were gaga for Dada, of which Duchamp was a pioneer. He was most famous for Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) (1912) and …

Nov 12, 2022 · Dadaist painter and sculptor turned chess player Marcel Duchamp helped writer Eve Babitz get revenge on a lover through a now iconic photograph.

In 1963, days after the opening of Marcel Duchamp's retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum, Eve Babitz posed for the famed nude chess match against Duchamp. Photographer Julian …

Part of an ongoing series on the theme of artists and models, this interview focused on the subject's experience as the nude woman playing chess with Marcel Duchamp, at his …

Dec 18, 2021 · The key shot was Duchamp, a chess fan, playing chess with the nude Eve in front of his large glass piece “The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even”. I lit the gallery with …

Sep 1, 1991 · Being a true account of the day Marcel Duchamp put the West Coast underground on the culture map by playing chess in Pasadena with the author, who was at the moment an …

Pasadena Art Museum. "Marcel Duchamp" exhibition. Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz (nude) in galleries. Photos by Julian Wasser

Apr 1, 2018 · California’s surreal 1960s truly began one Los Angeles morning in '63, when pioneering dadaist Marcel Duchamp met stark naked Eve Babitz. Duchamp had by then …

Duchamp at chessboard with Eve Babitz seen through reconstruction of "The Large Glass" at "Marcel Duchamp" exhibition, Pasadena Art Museum. Photo by Julian Wasser.

Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz Playing Chess [1] is the informal title to a photo by Julian Wasser of Marcel Duchamp playing chess with a fully nude Eve Babitz at the Pasadena …

Oct 10, 2019 · To make a splash, he sweet-talked Marcel Duchamp into doing his first West Coast retrospective. The legendary memoirist and Hollywood paramour Eve Babitz, whose nude …