And in doing so, he changed the course of art history. Upon his arrival, he retrieved a painting that he had entered into the exhibition, carried it out to the taxi and took it home. Once his brothers had departed, the artist locked up the house and took a taxi by himself to the Quai d'Orsay, where the Salon des Independants was scheduled to begin later that week. Half a century later, the artist would vividly remember the dark clothes his brothers had worn that day, as if they had come to challenge him to a duel. One hundred years ago today, on March 18, 1912, two men dressed in black crossed the Seine in Paris to pay a call on their younger brother, an artist who lived alone in his studio on Rue Amiral-de-Joinville. Alec Nevala-Lee is the author of "The Icon Thief," a suspense novel inspired by the work of Marcel Duchamp.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |