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NAOMI SAVAGE (1927-2005) Marcel Duchamp. 1949. Silver print, the image measuring 4⅝x3⅝ inches (11.7x9.2 cm.), the mount 18x14 inches (45.7x35.6 cm.), with Savage's signature, title, and date in pencil on print verso, and her signature, title, and date in pencil on the overmat, and her credit stamp, title and date in pencil, and her address label on mount verso.
Provenance Richard Lorenz Collection; by decent to his sister Patricia Lorenz, in 2001
Photographer Naomi Savage was the niece of Man Ray. After studying photography with Berenice Abbott at the New School for Social Research in 1943, Naomi traveled from Princeton, NJ, where she lived, to study with Man Ray in Los Angeles in order to learn his photographic techniques. Here, she began to develop her trademark exploration of innovative photographic techniques. "The darkroom," he told her, "was a place to make fearless tries at whatever images came to mind." She took his advice to heart, experimenting with alternative photographic, mechanical, and electronic techniques throughout her career. She later showed with the Witkin Gallery in New York. Her photographs are in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, and the Museum of Modern Art. The Smithsonian Archives of American Art retains her papers.
