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Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A.

05/2021 | 1418 | 163

Pages: 480-481

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Reviewer:

Sudhalter, Adrian (Sudhalter, Adrian )

Subjects

collectors and dealers:

Arensberg, Walter C. / Arensberg, Louise S.

museums and institutions:

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States

places:

Los Angeles

subjects:

Collections, Private / Collecting / Collectors / Modern art / Modernism / Surrealism

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subjects:

Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A. By Mark Nelson, William H. Sherman and Ellen Hoobler. 448 pp. incl. 103 col. + 227 b. & w. ills. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2020), 50. ISBN 978–1–60606–666–9. | :

Illustrations

Attributed works:

8. Photograph of the dining room at 7065 Hillside Avenue, Los Angeles, showing works by Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Duchamp and Paul Klee among others, c.January 1951, by Floyd Faxon. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives, Arensberg Archives).

Article

Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’: the Baroness theory debunked

10/2019 | 1399 | 161

Pages: 804-810

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Author:

Bailey, Bradley (Bailey, Bradley)

Subjects

art literature:

Gammel, Irene / Spalding, Julian / Thompson, Glyn

artists:

Duchamp, Marcel / Freytag-Loringhoven, Elsa von, Elsa / Varèse (nee Norton), Louise / Wood, Beatrice / Roché, Henri-Pierre / Stella, Joseph / Stieglitz, Alfred / Demuth, Charles

collectors and dealers:

Arensberg, Walter C.

dates:

1910-1919

places:

New York

styles:

Dada

subjects:

Society of Independent Artists / Exhibitions / Attributions

works:

Fountain by Marcel Duchamp

Illustrations

Attributed works:

1. Fountain, by Marcel Duchamp. 1917. Photograph Alfred Stieglitz, vintage silver print, 23.5 by 17.8 cm. (© Succession Marcel Duchamp/ DACS London 2019; private collection; courtesy Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York).

Attributed works:

2. Louise Varèse, by Brassaï. 1931. Gelatin silver print, 12.2 by 14.9 cm. (Louise Varèse Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Libraries, Northampton MA; © RMN-Grand Palais; DACS London 2019).

Attributed works:

3. Letter from Marcel Duchamp to Suzanne Duchamp. 11th April 1917. 23 by 15 cm. (Jean Crotti papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC).

Attributed works:

6. Detail of Fig.1, showing the information tag.

Attributed works:

7. Detail of ‘Marcel Duchamp at Play’ an essay by Louise Varèse. Late 1972. (Louise Varèse Papers, Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College Libraries, Northampton MA).

Western art unattributed:

4. Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven. 1922. Photograph. (George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Washington DC).

Western art unattributed:

5. Louise Varèse, Edgard Varèse, Suzanne Duchamp, Jean Crotti and Mary Reynolds photographed in Paris. 1924. (Jean Crotti papers, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution).

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The Arensberg Collection for Philadelphia

11/1954 | 620 | 96

Pages: 350+352-353

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Author:

Goldwater, Robert (Goldwater, Robert)

Subjects

artists:

Brancusi, Constantin

artists:

Duchamp, Marcel

collectors and dealers:

Arensberg, Louise S.

collectors and dealers:

Arensberg, Walter C.

dates:

1950-1959

museums and institutions:

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States

places:

United States / Philadelphia

subjects:

Art museums / Collections, Private

subjects:

Gifts

subjects:

French painting / Surrealism / Avant-garde

Illustrations

Attributed works:

22. Penguins, by Brancusi. 1914. Marble. (Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art.)

Non-western art unattributed:

23. Bird Pecking a Human Skull. Maya, Post-Classical Period. (Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art.)

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