the catalog for the show included “found”, rather than posed, photographs of the artists.
Etant donns, 1946-1966, mixed media, Philadelphia Museum of Art. This was posthumously and permanently installed in the museum in 1969
Etant donns
Main article: Etant donns
Duchamp’s final major art work surprised the art world that believed he had given up art for chess 25 years earlier. Entitled Etant donns: 1 la chute d’eau / 2 le gaz d’clairage (“Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas”), it is a tableau, visible only through a peep hole in a wooden door. A nude woman can be seen lying on her back with her face hidden, legs spread, and one hand holding a gas lamp in the air against a landscape backdrop. Duchamp had worked secretly on the piece from 1946 to 1966 in his Greenwich Village studio while even his closest friends