Given the illuminating Gas and the Waterfall, 1948-49, painted leather over plaster relief, mounted on velvet, c. 20 x 12 in. Moderna Museet, Stockholm. This preliminary small-scale study for the figure
of the Bride in Etant donnčs (now at the Philadelphia Museum)
is based
on a photo of Brazilian artist Maria Martins, with whom Duchamp was involved before he met Teeny.
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