i12bent: 3 ‘erotic objects’ by Marcel Duchamp: Wedge of Chastity/Coin de chasteté, 1954, cast 1963 - bronze & plastic (Tate) “Wedge of Chastity has been seen as the logical culmination of the other erotic pieces, consisting as it does of a wedge which fills a slit-like opening in the second element which, made of dental plastic, resembles the colour and texture of flesh. The plaster and dental plastic original was made in 1954 when, at the age of sixty-seven, Duchamp took as his second wife Alexina ‘Teeny’ Matisse. The artist explained, ‘It was my wedding present to her. We still have it on our table. We usually take it with us, like a wedding ring, no?’ (Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, New York 1971, p.88). Duchamp’s technical assistant on the sculpture was a dental mechanic, Sacha Maruchess. The union of the two forms expresses a coupling of male and female, or positive and negative shapes.” — Tate online text
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3 ‘erotic objects’ by Marcel Duchamp:

Wedge of Chastity/Coin de chasteté, 1954, cast 1963 - bronze & plastic (Tate)

“Wedge of Chastity has been seen as the logical culmination of the other erotic pieces, consisting as it does of a wedge which fills a slit-like opening in the second element which, made of dental plastic, resembles the colour and texture of flesh. The plaster and dental plastic original was made in 1954 when, at the age of sixty-seven, Duchamp took as his second wife Alexina ‘Teeny’ Matisse. The artist explained, ‘It was my wedding present to her. We still have it on our table. We usually take it with us, like a wedding ring, no?’ (Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp, New York 1971, p.88). Duchamp’s technical assistant on the sculpture was a dental mechanic, Sacha Maruchess. The union of the two forms expresses a coupling of male and female, or positive and negative shapes.” — Tate online text

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