Sculpture in 1954 as a wedding present for his second wife. Metal ‘wedge’ and the slit-form can also be seen as expressing the Legend claims that the fig leaf was created in response to Queen Victoria s shock upon first viewing the statues nudity, and was hung on the figure prior to royal visits, using two strategically placed hooks. Wedge of Chastity is the smallest of the three. The plaster cast of David at the Victoria and Albert Museum has a detachable plaster fig leaf which is displayed nearby. despite its phallic appearanceĪnd the fact that the French word ‘dard’ is slang for penis, couldĪlso derive from the cast of a vagina. The prudish title, Female Fig Leaf, is deliberately ironic. The sexual parts of the female mannequin in Duchamp's installation Etant Donnés(Given). Female Fig Leaf was probably based on a mould of They exemplify his fascination with sexualĪmbiguity. In the 1950s, Duchamp made a small number of moulded objects, based on theīody’s sexual parts. When the sculpture was reproduced on the cover of the first issue of Le Surréalisme, même in 1956, it was lit in such a way as to suggest a convex rather than a concave form.įurther reading: Arturo Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, revised edition, New York 1997, I, pp.228, 238, II, pp.797 (1950 plaster reproduced), 866 Elizabeth Cowling (ed.), Surrealism and After: The Gabrielle Keiller Collection, exhibition catalogue, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh 1997, p.90ĭoes this text contain inaccurate information or language that you feel we should improve or change? We would like to hear from you. The sculpture embodies several paradoxes: what might be a cast of female genitalia is a reverse imprint and although an 'invasive' mould of the bride's sex, the piece is designated a 'fig leaf', a term conjuring associations of prudery and censorship. The Tate's version is one of ten unnumbered examples produced in bronze in 1961 by the Galerie Rive Droite, Paris. The basic idea behind both is that you run your test script(s) under the control of coverage or figleaf, and then ask them to output a test coverage summary. From this mould Man Ray supervised in 1951 the making of ten examples in painted plaster. In 1950 Duchamp made two plaster moulds of Female Fig Leaf, one of which he gave to the artist Man Ray as a gift when the latter left New York for Paris. Etant donnés consists of an elaborate erotic tableau of a female nude with legs spread, and is viewed through a peep-hole in a wooden door.įemale Fig Leaf is thought to be based on a mould of the exposed parts of the female figure in Etant donnés. Etant donnés can be seen as a three-dimensional realisation of the action alluded to in The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (replica in Tate Gallery, T02011). After Duchamp's death, these pieces were found to be connected with Etant donnés, or Given, the piece on which Duchamp worked in secret between 19 and which is now installed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Not a Shoe is thought to be an early version of the wedge section in Wedge of Chastity. In the 1950s Duchamp created a series of four small-scale 'erotic objects': Not a Shoe (1950, Jedermann Collection), Female Fig Leaf (1961 bronze cast, Tate Gallery T07279), Dart Object (1962 bronze cast, Tate Gallery T07280), and Wedge of Chastity (1963 bronze and dental plastic edition, Tate Gallery T07281).
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