Francis Picabia after meeting him at the 1911 Salon d’ Automne, and Picabia proceeded to introduce him to a lifestyle of fast cars and ‘high’ living.
In 1911, at Jacques’ home in Puteaux, the brothers hosted a regular discussion group with other artists and writers including Picabia, Robert Delaunay, Fernand Lger, Roger de la Fresnaye, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, Juan Gris, and Alexander Archipenko. The group came to be known as the Puteaux Group, and the artists’ work was dubbed Orphic cubism. Uninterested in the Cubists’ seriousness or in their focus on visual matters, Duchamp did not join in discussions of Cubist theory, and gained a reputation of being shy. However, that same year he painted in a Cubist style, and added an impression of motion by using repetitive imagery.
During this period Duchamp’s fascination with transition, change,