Marcel Duchamp is best known for his 1912 painting “Nude Descending the Staircase.” That’s nice enough, and if you can get past the toilets he adorned as art, the the Dada movement he is associated with, then you might find a few portraits interesting.
“Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture,” is on show at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. These are portraits of Duchamp — not all are by Duchamp. Here’s some name-dropping: Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Jasper Johns, and Ray Johnson.
The NPG’s exhibit page can be found here.
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