02 works, The Art Of The Nude, Julian Wasser’s Marcel Duchamp playing chess with Eve Babitz, #242

A contact sheet from Julian Wasser’s shoot with Eve Babitz and Marcel Duchamp on October 12, 1963, at California’s Pasadena Art Museum (now the Norton Simon Museum), which was hosting the French artist’s first retrospective.

After exchanging her blouse and skirt for a smock, Babitz sat at the chessboard in the center of the room. She waited for Duchamp to appear, Wasser to set up…

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