Bride (Mariée), After Duchamp
Jacques Villon
French, 1875–1963
1934
A 1934 aquatint and etching in which Jacques Villon reworks Duchamp’s 'Bride,' translating a mechanized, sculptural idea into a layered, printed composition of interlocking forms.
A warm, muted palette of pinks, ochres and deep browns folds into a dense maze of curved and angular planes that read alternately as limbs, drapery and machine parts, so the eye keeps resolving and reassembling a fragmented figure.
By rendering Duchamp’s sculptural motif as an intaglio print, Villon extends Cubist fragmentation and the machine aesthetic into graphic form, showing how printmaking could engage with avant‑garde ideas of montage, readymade reference, and conceptual reinvention.
Medium
Aquatint and etching
Dimensions
plate: 19 3/4 x 12 3/8" (50.2 x 31.5 cm); sheet: 25 13/16 x 19 13/16" (65.5 x 50.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of the Museum Publications Department
Accession
200.1951
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