Oil, enamel, cut-and-pasted papers, ink, and pencil on canvas
Not on view
Black lines radiating outward from the round form at the painting’s center resemble the spokes of a bicycle wheel, like the one also on view in this gallery that so fascinated the artist’s brother Marcel Duchamp. Circles—some hand-painted, others cut from printed silver paper—evoke a flickering motion. This work’s ambiguous title, which brings together the nouns “solitude” and “funnel,” suggests a mechanical counterpart to a psychological state.
2019
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1921 – 1963, Suzanne Duchamp (1889–1963)
1963 – 1968, Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), inherited from Suzanne Duchamp (his sister)
1968 – 1995, Alexina “Teeny” Duchamp (1906–1995), inherited from Marcel Duchamp (her husband)
1995 – 2000, The Estate of Alexina “Teeny” Duchamp
2000 – 2007, Pierre-Noël Matisse (1935–2007), also known as Peter Matisse, received from The Estate of Alexina “Teeny” Duchamp (his mother)
2007 – November 26, 2012, The Estate of Pierre-Noël Matisse
November 26, 2012– December 3, 2012, Alexina Matisse, acquired from the Estate of Pierre-Noël Matisse (her father)
December 3, 2012 – May 29, 2019, New Maple LLC, accepted all assigned rights from Alexina Matisse (Manager of New Maple LLC)
May 29, 2019, The Museum of Modern Art, purchased from New Maple LLC
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French, 1889–1963 2 works onlineIn February 1920, Francis Picabia wrote, “Suzanne Duchamp does more intelligent things than paint.” While her body of work ranged from abstraction to figuration, painting to drawing, and poetry to collage , over the course of her 50-plus year career she continued to probe the potential of painting.
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