Portrait of Dr. Dumouchel | |
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Artist | Marcel Duchamp |
Year | 1910 |
Medium | oil paint, canvas |
Location | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Accession No. | 1950-134-508 |
Portrait of Dr. Dumouchel is a 1910 painting by Marcel Duchamp. Raymond Dumouchel was a former schoolmate and a student in Radiology, an emerging field at the time (X-rays had been discovered in 1895). Duchamp painted the left hand of Dumouchel surrounded by an aura, suggestive of both the rays he worked with and his healing powers. [1] [2] [3]
In a letter to the Arensbergs, Duchamp writes: "The portrait is very colourful (red and green) and has a note of humour which indicated my future direction to abandon mere retinal painting." [4]
Duchamp included a facsimile of the painting in the Boîte-en-valise. [5]
Portrait of Dr. Dumouchel | |
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Artist | Marcel Duchamp |
Year | 1910 |
Medium | oil paint, canvas |
Location | Philadelphia Museum of Art |
Accession No. | 1950-134-508 |
Portrait of Dr. Dumouchel is a 1910 painting by Marcel Duchamp. Raymond Dumouchel was a former schoolmate and a student in Radiology, an emerging field at the time (X-rays had been discovered in 1895). Duchamp painted the left hand of Dumouchel surrounded by an aura, suggestive of both the rays he worked with and his healing powers. [1] [2] [3]
In a letter to the Arensbergs, Duchamp writes: "The portrait is very colourful (red and green) and has a note of humour which indicated my future direction to abandon mere retinal painting." [4]
Duchamp included a facsimile of the painting in the Boîte-en-valise. [5]