Dark Duchamp Christmas

a dark and starkly lit black and white photo of a charlie brown christmas level scrawny on a wooden stool, an undated photo from marcel duchamp's studio, via yale

Christmas came early because @nobrashfestivity did some welcome work tidying up this photo of a Christmas tree on a stool in Marcel Duchamp’s Paris studio. The Beinecke still says no date, and I didn’t know it when I posted it in 2021, but in 2008, flickr user leiris202 dated this photo to 1907, which would be six years before the legendary original Bicycle Wheel Duchamp got his sister Suzanne to photograph, so he could backdate his 1915 re-creation.