published correspondence

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• Duchamp's known correspondence amounts to more than 1,500 letters or other missives of various kinds. These have proven invaluable in documenting the chronological skeleton of his life and tracing his movements and actions, and have been exploited in the catalogue raisonné and major exhibition catalogues of his works, in biographical studies. However only a handful has been published. See also Archives and Collections.
• In 2000 Francis Naumann and Hector Obalk have edited a selection of somewhat under one-fifth of this corpus, in a volume titled Affectionately, Marcel from the closing phrase that the artist habitually employed when writing to his friends.

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• ANTHOLOGIES

• Francis M. Naumann and Hector Obalk (eds.)
  Affectionately, Marcel. The selected correspondence of Marcel Duchamp / translation by Jill Taylor (Ludion Press : Ghent 2000). Reviewed by Sheldon Nodelman for Art in America (March 2003) [FindArticles].

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• CORRESPONDENCE

• Walter and Louise Arensberg
  'Marcel Duchamp's Letters to Walter and Louise Arensberg, 1917-1921' / introduction, translation and notes by Francis M. Naumann, in Dada/Surrealism no. 16 (1987) 203-227. Reprinted in Rudolf Kuenzli and Francis M. Naumann (eds.), Marcel Duchamp. Artist of the Century (MIT Press : Cambridge MA 1989) and in Affectionately, Marcel (Ghent 2000).

• Constantin Brancusi
  'Correspondence avec Marcel Duchamp', in La dation Brancusi. Dessins et archives. Exposition présentée au Centre Pompidou, Galerie d'art graphique, 25 juin-15 septembre 2003 (Centre Pompidou : Paris 2003) 114-129. 91 Letters and postcards.

• Victor Brauner
  'Marcel Duchamp à Victor Brauner', published in exhibition catalogue La Planète affolée. Surréalisme, dispersion et influences, 1938-1947 (Flammarion : Paris 1986) 57 [Letter dated Sanary 9.05.1942].

• André Breton
  [Letter, 25 November 1922], in Marguerite Bonnet (éd.), André Breton. Oeuvres complètes Vol. 1 (Gallimard : Paris 1988) 1315.
• [Letters 1938-1959], in Agnès Angliviel de la Beaumelle, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine, ... et al. (éd.), André Breton. La Beauté convulsive (Editions du Centre Pompidou : Paris 1991) 239, 346, 421-422.

• Jean Crotti
  'Affectueusement, Marcel. Ten letters from Marcel Duchamp to Suzanne Duchamp and Jean Crotti' / ed. by Francis M. Naumann, in Archives of American Art Journal 22, nr. 4 (Spring 1983) 2-19. Reprinted in Affectionately, Marcel (Ghent 2000).

• Katherine Dreier
  'Telegram to Katherine Dreier', in Anthony Hill (ed.), Duchamp. Passim. A Marcel Duchamp Anthology (Gordon & Breach Arts International : s.l. 1994) 80 [Dated 16.01.1948].

• Enrico Donati
  [Letter 29 June 1961, Cadaquès], in Pleine marge 7 (June 1988) 33.

• Suzanne Duchamp
  'Affectueusement, Marcel. Ten letters from Marcel Duchamp to Suzanne Duchamp and Jean Crotti' / ed. by Francis M. Naumann, in Archives of American Art Journal 22, nr. 4 (Spring 1983) 2-19. Reprinted in Affectionately, Marcel (Ghent 2000).

• Jean Hélion
  Lettres / Marcel Duchamp, Jean Hélion; préface & notes Claude Rameil (Les Autodidactes : Paris 2000). 3 Letters from Duchamp and 1 letter from Hélion, dated 1936-1964.

• Marcel Jean
  Herbert Molderings (Hrsg.), Marcel Duchamp. Briefe an Marcel Jean = Lettres à Marcel Jean = Letters to Marcel Jean / hrsg. von Herbert Molderings (Silke Schreiber : München 1987).

• Frederick J. Kiesler
  [Telegram 14 July 1947], in David Prowler, A Telegram from Marcel Duchamp (Readymade Press : San Francisco 1990).

• Robert Lebel
  '33 lettres et cartes à Robert Lebel (1955-1960) au sujet de Sur Marcel Duchamp' / éd. et ann. par André Gervais, in Les cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne no. 84 (Summer 2003) 14-47.
• 'Extraits de la correspondence inédite de Marcel Duchamp à Robert Lebel', in Robert Lebel (éd.), Sur Marcel Duchamp / avec des textes de André Breton & H.P. Roché (Editions Trianon/Centre George Pompidou/Mazzotta : Paris 1996). Facs. dated 1953-1959.
• [Telegram 4 may 1959, Perpignan], in Achille Bonito Oliva (ed.), Ubi Fluxus ibi Motus 1990-1962 (Mazzotta : Milan 1990) 84.

• Jan van der Marck
  [Letter; Cadaqués 11 July 1967] reproduced in facsimile by Walter de Maria in 'Chicago Project', in S.M.S. No. 1 (February 1968).

• Maria Martins
  See: Francis M. Naumann, 'Marcel & Maria', in Art in America (April 2001) 99.

• Pierre de Massot
  'Quarante-trois lettres, pneumatiques et carte postales adressées à Pierre de Massot', in Etant donné no. 2 (1999) 86-96 [A pneumatique is a message placed in a cylindrical container and sent from one post office to another in Paris by means of an underground network of pressurized tubes].

• Meret Oppenheim
  [Postcard 24 may 1936], in Bice Curriger, Meret Oppenheim. Spuren durchstandener Freiheit (ABC Verlag : Zürich 1982) 43.

• Walter Pach
  Bennard B. Perlman (ed.), American artists, authors, and collectors. The Walter Pach letters, 1906-1958 (State University of New York Press : Albany NY 2002).
• 'Amicalement, Marcel. Fourteen Letters from Marcel Duchamp to Walter Pach', in Archives of American Art Journal 29, no. 3/4 (1989) 36-50. Reprinted in Affectionately, Marcel (Ghent 2000).

• Francis Picabia
  [4 letters, 1922-1923, to Francis Picabia], in Michel Sanouillet, Dada à Paris / Nouv. éd. rev. et corr.; établie par Anne Sanouillet (Flammarion : Paris 1993) 600-601.

• Guy Weelen
  'Un lettre inédit de Marcel Duchamp', in AICARC Bulletin 1 (1974) 1-2 [Letter dated New York 26 June 1955; facs.].
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