Alexina Duchamp
Alexina "Teeny" Duchamp (née Sattler; January 6, 1906 – December 20, 1995) was the wife of Pierre Matisse, daughter-in-law of artist Henri Matisse, and second wife of artist and chess player Marcel Duchamp.
Background
She was born Alexina Sattler in
Paris and marriage to Pierre Matisse
Sattler at first thought of becoming an artist and went to Paris in 1921, where for a time she studied sculpture with Constantin Brâncuși at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris.[1] She first met Marcel Duchamp in 1923 at a ball given in her honor by American sculptor Mariette Benedict Mills, the mother of a close friend. In 1929 Teeny married Pierre Matisse, an art dealer and the youngest son of Fauve artist Henri Matisse. They had three children: Jacqueline, Paul, and Peter. Throughout 1938, Henri Matisse made a series of portrait sketches of Alexina.[2] When her husband was mobilized in Paris at the outbreak of World War II, she ran his gallery for some months.[1] In 1949 Pierre and Teeny separated due to Pierre's infidelity with Patricia Kane Matta, the former wife of surrealist painter Roberto Matta.[3] She received many important paintings in the subsequent divorce settlement.
She worked for a time as an agent and broker for artists such as
New York and marriage to Marcel Duchamp
In the autumn of 1951 she was invited by
References
- ^ a b c d John Russell (December 22, 1995), Alexina Duchamp, Dada Artist's Wife And Colleague, 89 The New York Times.
- ^ Henri Matisse, Portrait of Alexina Matisse (1938) Archived 2012-06-15 at the Wayback Machine Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University.
- ^ "Oral history interview with Sally Avery, 1982 February 19 | Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved January 3, 2012.
- ^ Barry Schwabsky (March 21, 1999), The Age of Experiments: Postcards From a Time of 'You Had to Be There' The New York Times.
- ^ Alexina and Marcel Duchamp Papers Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Reading
- Tomkins, Calvin, Duchamp: A Biography. Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1996. ISBN 0-8050-5789-7
- Baruchello, Gianfranco & Martin, Henry, Why Duchamp: An Essay on Aesthetic Impact, McPherson, 1985, ISBN 9780914232735
External links
- Russell, John (Dec 22, 1995). "Alexina Duchamp, Dada Artist's Wife And Colleague, 89". Obituary. New York Times.
- Wolf, Tom (Feb 19, 1982). "Oral history interview with Sally Avery". Mark Rothko and his Times oral history project. Archives of American Art. Retrieved Jan 3, 2012.