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Marcel Duchamp’s Mother’s Potato-Masher (Primary Title)

Ray Johnson, American, 1927 - 1995 (Artist)

1973
American
Collage
Works On Paper
graphite, ink, paint, collage on paper and board
Modern and Contemporary Art
Place Made,United States
Sheet: 19 3/4 × 14 7/8 in. (50.17 × 37.78 cm)
Framed: 20 3/8 × 15 3/8 in. (51.75 × 39.05 cm)
90.12
Not on view
Signed and dated, lower right: "Ray Johnson 1973"
Gift of Best Products Co., Inc.
Marcel Duchamp’s Mother’s Potato-Masher and Other Works of Art: A Gift of Best Products Co. to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, The Arts Center, Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth, VA, January 11 – February 27, 1992

Marcel Duchamp’s Mother’s Potato-Masher and Other Works of Art: A Gift of Best Products Co., Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, March 23 – May 13, 1990
Collection of the artist; Purchased by Best Products, Co., Richmond, Virginia in November of 1973; Gift to Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA), Richmond, Virginia in March of 1990.
©artist or artist’s estate

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