Sale 2516 - 19th & 20th Century Prints & Drawings, September 19, 2019

307 c MARCEL DUCHAMP Coffee Mill . Etching on cream wove paper, 1947. 180x80 mm; 7 1 / 8 x3 1 / 8 inches, full margins. Numbered 45/200 in pencil, lower left. Second state (of 2), after cancellation. A very good, evenly-printed impression. Duchamp (1887-1968) etched Coffee Mill for Gleize/Metzinger Du Cubisme after the same-titled painting he had made in 1911 for his brother, sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon. His brother was married in 1911 and had asked his artist friends to make him small paintings 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). [1,500/2,500] 308  JACQUES VILLON (after) Composition . Color aquatint, 1928. 490x340 mm; 19 1 / 4 x13 3 / 8 inches, full margins. Signed and numbered 158/200 in pencil, lower margin. Published by Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Paris. A very good impression of this color aquatint by Villon after one of his own paintings. Ginestet/Pouillon 660. [2,000/3,000] 307 308