09. Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp was born in Blainville, a town 19 kilometres northeast of Rouen. See C.Tomkins, Duchamp. A Biography, New York 1996, p.16. 10. As reported by C. Tomkins, ibid. p.21, Marcel and Suzanne Duchamp, who was two years younger than her brother, went to the »one-room school in Blainville«. Tomkins does not mention Latin lesson with the curate. 11. In 1904 Duchamp left his family home and moved in with his brother Gaston in the Parisian district of Montmartre (for a detailed report of those months see C.Tomkins, ibid. p. 30 and following). 12. Following J.Gough-Cooper and J. Caumont´s chronology, Duchamp served in the army in Eu, a city near Rouen, from October 3, 1905 to September 18, 1906. See J.Gough-Cooper and J. Caumont, »Synchronopticum«, in Marcel Duchamp, Milan 1993. 13. 1904-1905; see note no.9. 14. Anne d´Harnoncourt reports that Duchamp left Neuilly for Paris and moved to 23, rue Saint-Hippolyte in 1913. See: Marcel Duchamp, edited by A.d´Harnoncourt and K.McShine, New York 1973 and 1989, p.14. Duchamp started to work at the library St. Geneviève on November 3, 1913. See: J.Gough-Cooper and J.Caumont, ibid. 15. Duchamp travelled to England and stayed at Herne Bay, Kent, during the summer. See J.Gough-Cooper and J.Caumont, »Ephemerides« (8.8.1913) ibid. 16. Rochambeau is the name of the boat on which Duchamp arrived in New York on June 15, 1915. See J.Gough-Cooper and J.Caumont, ibid. and d´Harnoncourt ibid., p.15 17. When Duchamp arrived in New York, he stayed for 3 months at Louise and Walter Arensberg´s house. He eventually moved to 34 Beekman Place and finally to the Lincoln Arcade Building on 1947 Broadway. See: d´Harnoncourt, ibid. p.15. 18. 1918 19. September 19, 1918 to June 22, 1919. See: J.Gough-Cooper and J.Caumont, ibid. 20. August 9, 1919 to December 27, 1919, ibid. 21. The Large Glass, conceived in Germany and France, was completed in New York. 22. »Je vais m´occuper d´une exposition Brancusi en Novembre. Et lui même arrive le 15 Septembre à N.Y. Vous le rencontrerez, si vous ne l´avez déja, et l´aimerez«. »I´ll be taking care of a Brancusi exhibition in November and he will also be arriving 15th September in N.Y. You will meet him if you haven’t already, and will like him«. Marcel Duchamp to Ettie Stettheimer, September 23, 1926, in Affectionately Marcel Duchamp, edited by Francis M. Naumann and Hector Obalk, Amsterdam 2000, pp. 155-156. 23. This asterisk does not refer to anything in the text. In 1927 Duchamp moved to 11, rue Larrey where he remained until 1933. 24. In 1933 Duchamp returned to New York to set up a show of Brancusi at the Brummer Gallery (November 17, 1933 to January 1, 1934). After that show Duchamp went back to Europe and visited New York only occasionally. In 1942 he finally settled down in New York. For one year starting from October 2, 1942 Duchamp rented a room with a bath in Kiesler´s penthouse at 56 Seventh Avenue. See Steffi Kiesler Calendar from 1942, Archive of the Frederick Kiesler Center, Vienna. 25. May 25, 1936 to September 2, 1936. Katherine Dreier covered the expenses to repair the Large Glass which was broken accidentally in 1926 after its first installation at the Brooklyn Museum. The damage was discovered some years later when Katherine Dreier opened the crate in which the glass panels have been stored. |
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