I love this 1931 photo of Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Duchamp, and Mary Reynolds lounging around on the French Riviera. Calvin Tompkins, in Duchamp: A Biography, gives us the context: “For several years [Duchamp and Reynolds] spent the month of August in a villa that Mary rented in Villefranche-sur-Mer, on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean. Brancusi came to stay with them there in 1931; he set up his big camera on the terrace and took the photograph…”
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