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Log in Sign up. Access complete market analysis. Unlock exclusive artist performance data. Art History. Book Reviews. Search History. Magazine Features. Mar 01, More than a group of artists marking the artistic modernity of the twentieth century, the association of Duchamp- Man Ray -Picabia sounds like a constellation. Linked by the complicities of life, the demands of friendship and artistic collaboration, these three men constitute a kind of occult triumvirate of the artistic avant-garde of the first half of the twentieth century.
Occult, in fact, because none of them imposed his law and authority over the aesthetic destinies of their era. All three had a fundamentally anti-authoritarian and actually libertarian conception of art and life. Until the end of their respective lives, they all held one another in perfect esteem. This was doubtless because each was able doggedly to preserve his freedom. Of the trio, Duchamp is undeniably the central figure, because contacts and complicities between these three protagonists were chiefly organised around two pairs: Duchamp-Picabia and Duchamp-Man Ray.
There was little direct and privileged contact between Man Ray and Picabia, and we rarely see all three together. Between Duchamp and Picabia there was a real reciprocal admiration which would not produce collaborative works, but which would be nourished by the same philosophy of life, the same way of life.
