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Larger Image	Larger image may be viewed by UofL faculty, staff, and students only (log-in required using ULink username/password) at: http://echo.louisville.edu/login?url=http://vrc-web.louisville.edu/Jpegs/820/826-01.jpg
Title	Belle Haleine, Eau de Voilette, [perfume bottle in case].
Translated Title	Beautiful Breath, Veil Water.
Creator	Duchamp, Marcel (French painter, sculptor, and writer, 1887-1968)
Date	1921
Cultural Context	French European Western European
Style/Period	Dada Modern (styles and periods) Modernist
Theme	Sculpture (visual work) Ready-mades Found objects Perfume bottles Bottles Containers (receptacles) Stoppers (container components) Perfume (scent) Cosmetics Industry (economic concept) Labels (identifying artifacts) Figurative art Figures (representations) Front views Men (male humans) Artists Portraits Self-portraits Avant-garde
Subject	Sculpture Bottles Containers Perfumes Cosmetics Cosmetics industry Industry Commercialism Grooming Hygiene Puns (Visual works) Labels Men Artists Portraits Self-portraits Female impersonators Cross dressing
Description	"The text on the label punningly translates as 'beautiful breath/veil water'. Duchamp's female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy, peers out from above it." (Caption, p.54); "Among Duchamp's strangest gestures had been the creation of a female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy (a verbal pun on 'Eros, ç'est la vie'). This figure, whose visual manifestations consisted of photographs by the American artist Man Ray of Duchamp in drag, appeared on the label of the perfume bottle Belle Haleine/Eau de voilette. A Dada skit on the cosmetics/hygiene industry, this was simultaneously a succinct formulation of Duchamp's understanding of art as (feminized) consumption as opposed to (masculinized) production, as later exemplified by the Boîte-en-Valise. Duchamp's sexuality, whilst ostensibly heterosexual, was obviously put into question by this gesture. At the same time, his dandyish persona, involving an aristocratic disdain for what he deemed the 'splashy' side of painting, to say nothing of its retinal associations, won him many gay sympathizers." (Excerpt, pp.54-55)
People Pictured	Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
Material	Found objects Mixed media
Inscription	Text on label: BELLE HALEINE / Eau de Voilette / RS [with the R written backwards] / NEW YORK / PARIS
Work Type	Sculpture Ready-mades Found objects
Source	Hopkins, David. After Modern Art: 1945-2000. Oxford History of Art. Oxford; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. (p.54, fig.25)
Rights	© Succession Marcel Duchamp/DACS, 2000.
Digital Publisher	University of Louisville Department of Fine Arts/Allen R. Hite Art Institute Visual Resources Center
Format	image/jpeg
Digital File Name	VRC 826-01.jpg
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