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44 x 35.5 cm
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“I asked him [Marcel Duchamp] if I could do his portrait. He said ‘Yes.’ He came to dinner with his delightful wife, Teeny. I had hired an electrocardiographic machine and took his ECG in the bedroom before we ate. Duchamp had said that art diminishes by half-lives in the museum; I wanted to refute that. When he came to my exhibition in 1966, he saw Portrait of Marcel Duchamp: Lead 1, Slow Heartbeat (1966). Looking at Duchamp looking at his heartbeat I was reminded that Eugène Delacroix apparently said he hadn’t understood Turner’s paintings until he saw John Ruskin looking at them. Did Duchamp’s captured heartbeat refute his idea that art died on the institutional wall?” Brian O’Doherty, Strolling with the zeitgeist, in: Frieze, March 2013
