MARCEL DUCHAMP Coffee Mill

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MARCEL DUCHAMP
Coffee Mill.

Etching, 1947. 180x80 mm; 7¼x3¼ inches, full margins. Second state (of 2), after cancellation. Edition of 200. Numbered 37/200 in pencil, lower left. Schwarz 398.

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Duchamp (1887-1968) etched this print for Du Cubisme after the same-titled oil painting he had made in 1911 for his brother, sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918). His brother was married in 1911 and had asked his artist friends to make him small paintings as wedding gifts with which to decorate their newlywed kitchen.

According to Duchamp's later recollection, "I made this old-fashioned coffee mill for him. It shows the different facets of the coffee grinding operation and the handle on top is seen simultaneously in several positions as it revolves. You can see the ground coffee in a heap under the cogwheels of the central shaft, which turns in the directions of the arrow on top" (d'Harnoncourt/McShine, Marcel Duchamp, 1973, page 256).