New York Dada and the Arensberg Circle of Artists
鈥淣ew York Dada and the Arensberg Circle of Artists鈥� opens at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art on September 12, 2019. The show will emphasize the contributions made to New York Dada by its three leading protagonists鈥擬an Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Francis Picabia鈥攂ut it will also highlight the critical role played by Louise and Walter Arensberg, collectors of modern art in whose apartment many of the activities associated with New York Dada took place. Walter Arensberg was a poet, and the radical nature of his writings have only recently been recognized for their contribution to the arts in this period, for his poems were as much a departure from convention as were Duchamp鈥檚 readymades from the art produced in his day. The near-nightly soir茅es that took place at the Arensberg apartment will be dramatized in the exhibition by means of Chez Arensberg, a visual reenactment of a fictional gathering at the apartment in 1917. This work was commissioned by Naumann in 1984 of the French artist and illustrator Andr茅 Raffray (1925-2010), who rendered the scene as a small gouache, but for the show, it will be displayed on a large, 6-x-4-foot backlit translucent panel, so as to make the parties that took place in these years come to life.
Marcel Duchamp will be represented in this exhibition by multiple works drawn from various phases in his career: a place card he made on his 30th birthday in 1917 for his friend Henri-Pierre Roch茅; a signed print of his infamous readymade Fountain; chess pieces that he designed for the wall of his apartment; a pochoir of his Nude Descending a Staircase; and an example of his Bo卯te-en-valise of 1936-41. Works by Man Ray will include various figurative works from his Ridgefield period, as well as: a silkscreen on Plexiglas of his Self-Portrait of 1916; an edition of his sculpture By Itself II; a clich茅 verre of Quartet from 1917; a design for chess pieces from 1920; and a rare vintage print of Moving Sculpture, a photograph from 1920 of bedsheets blowing in the wind. The most important work by Francis Picabia in the exhibition is his large watercolor from 1915 called Intervention d鈥檜ne femme au moyen d鈥檜ne machine [Intervention of a Woman by Means of a Machine], considered among the first of his mechanomorphic pictures; also shown will be an example of the magazine 291 to which Picabia contributed five machinist portraits; finally, as an abstract oil on paper from 1937 will also be included.
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鈥淣ew York Dada and the Arensberg Circle of Artists鈥� opens at Francis M. Naumann Fine Art on September 12, 2019. The show will emphasize the contributions made to New York Dada by its three leading protagonists鈥擬an Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and Francis Picabia鈥攂ut it will also highlight the critical role played by Louise and Walter Arensberg, collectors of modern art in whose apartment many of the activities associated with New York Dada took place. Walter Arensberg was a poet, and the radical nature of his writings have only recently been recognized for their contribution to the arts in this period, for his poems were as much a departure from convention as were Duchamp鈥檚 readymades from the art produced in his day. The near-nightly soir茅es that took place at the Arensberg apartment will be dramatized in the exhibition by means of Chez Arensberg, a visual reenactment of a fictional gathering at the apartment in 1917. This work was commissioned by Naumann in 1984 of the French artist and illustrator Andr茅 Raffray (1925-2010), who rendered the scene as a small gouache, but for the show, it will be displayed on a large, 6-x-4-foot backlit translucent panel, so as to make the parties that took place in these years come to life.
Marcel Duchamp will be represented in this exhibition by multiple works drawn from various phases in his career: a place card he made on his 30th birthday in 1917 for his friend Henri-Pierre Roch茅; a signed print of his infamous readymade Fountain; chess pieces that he designed for the wall of his apartment; a pochoir of his Nude Descending a Staircase; and an example of his Bo卯te-en-valise of 1936-41. Works by Man Ray will include various figurative works from his Ridgefield period, as well as: a silkscreen on Plexiglas of his Self-Portrait of 1916; an edition of his sculpture By Itself II; a clich茅 verre of Quartet from 1917; a design for chess pieces from 1920; and a rare vintage print of Moving Sculpture, a photograph from 1920 of bedsheets blowing in the wind. The most important work by Francis Picabia in the exhibition is his large watercolor from 1915 called Intervention d鈥檜ne femme au moyen d鈥檜ne machine [Intervention of a Woman by Means of a Machine], considered among the first of his mechanomorphic pictures; also shown will be an example of the magazine 291 to which Picabia contributed five machinist portraits; finally, as an abstract oil on paper from 1937 will also be included.
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