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Duchamp (Marcel).- A pair of red knitted gloves owned by Duchamp, later a gift to Claude Fredericks from Duchamp's mistress Adele Norton, "Merde" embroidered in mirror on one palm, both fore-fingers and thumbs a little frayed, otherwise very good, c.1940s; with a facsimile photocopy of a typed note by "C.F." (Claude Fredericks) explaining the association, and a dossier on the relationship between Duchamp, Norton and Fredericks (sm. bundle)
*** An unusual and charming survival from Marcel Duchamp’s private life and an interesting association with the writer Claude Fredericks.
These knitted gloves are distinguished by the irreverent “Merde” embroidered on one palm and the traces of wear left by their former owner. The gloves are accompanied by a photocopy of Claude Fredericks's account, acquired by the Getty Research Institute, alongside a dossier shedding light on Fredericks's friendships and encounters with artists and writers of the period.
Fredericks writes in his diary: "A pair of gloves that belonged to Marcel Duchamp. He had them knitted (with a characteristic 'Merde' embroidered in the palm of one hand) when he was escaping from France to America at the beginning of the Second World War..."
Claude Fredericks: (1923-2013), an American poet, diarist, founder of the Banyan Press and influential professor. He taught authors such as Donna Tartt and Bret Easton Ellis at Bennington College, Vermont.
Duchamp (Marcel).- A pair of red knitted gloves owned by Duchamp, later a gift to Claude Fredericks from Duchamp's mistress Adele Norton, "Merde" embroidered in mirror on one palm, both fore-fingers and thumbs a little frayed, otherwise very good, c.1940s; with a facsimile photocopy of a typed note by "C.F." (Claude Fredericks) explaining the association, and a dossier on the relationship between Duchamp, Norton and Fredericks (sm. bundle)
*** An unusual and charming survival from Marcel Duchamp’s private life and an interesting association with the writer Claude Fredericks.
These knitted gloves are distinguished by the irreverent “Merde” embroidered on one palm and the traces of wear left by their former owner. The gloves are accompanied by a photocopy of Claude Fredericks's account, acquired by the Getty Research Institute, alongside a dossier shedding light on Fredericks's friendships and encounters with artists and writers of the period.
Fredericks writes in his diary: "A pair of gloves that belonged to Marcel Duchamp. He had them knitted (with a characteristic 'Merde' embroidered in the palm of one hand) when he was escaping from France to America at the beginning of the Second World War..."
Claude Fredericks: (1923-2013), an American poet, diarist, founder of the Banyan Press and influential professor. He taught authors such as Donna Tartt and Bret Easton Ellis at Bennington College, Vermont.
