Élevage de poussière (Dust Breeding)

the artist (from 1920; to Schwarz); Arturo Schwarz, Milan (after 1959; sold to Jedermann); Jedermann Collection, Princeton, N.J. (by 1989–2005; sold in 2005 to Bluff); Bluff Collection (from 2005)

Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Marcel Duchamp," September 22–December 9, 1973, no. 138 (checklist no. 167; lent by Galleria Schwarz, Milan).

Museum of Modern Art, New York. "Marcel Duchamp," December 28, 1973–February 24, 1974, no. 138.

Art Institute of Chicago. "Marcel Duchamp," March 23–May 5, 1974, no catalogue (checklist no. 167; lent by Galleria Schwarz, Milan).

Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography," May 7–July 30, 1989, no. 199 (as "Dust Breeding (on Duchamp's Large Glass)," lent by the Jederman Collection, N.A.).

Art Institute of Chicago. "On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography," September 16–November 26, 1989, no. 199.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. "On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography," December 21, 1989–February 25, 1990, no. 199.

Berlin. Martin-Gropius-Bau. "Amerikanische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert: Malerei und Plastik; 1913–1993," May 8–July 25, 1993, no. 15 (lent by the Jedermann Collection, N.A.).

London. Royal Academy of Arts. "American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913–1993," September 16–December 12, 1993, no. 15.

London. Serpentine Gallery. "Man Ray," January 8–March 12, 1995, unnumbered cat. (lent by a private collection, USA).

New York. Whitney Museum of American Art. "Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York," November 21, 1996–February 23, 1997, unnumbered cat. (p. 130; lent by the Jedermann Collection, N.A.).

New York. Achim Moeller Fine Art. "Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," October 2, 1999–January 14, 2000, no catalogue.

New York. Sean Kelly Gallery. "Marcel Duchamp/Man Ray: 50 Years of Alchemy," January 27–March 1, 2000, no catalogue.

Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College. "Living with Duchamp," June 27–September 28, 2003, unnum. brochure.

Paris. Centre Pompidou, Galerie 1. "Dada," October 5, 2005–January 9, 2006, no. 1069 (lent by The Bluff Collection).

Washington, D.C. National Gallery of Art. "Dada," February 19–May 14, 2006, unnumbered cat. (pl. 249; lent by The Bluff Collection).

New York. Museum of Modern Art. "Dada," June 18–September 11, 2006, unnumbered cat.

London. Tate Modern. "Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia," February 21–May 26, 2008, unnumbered cat. (fig. 106; lent by The Bluff Collection LP).

New York. Museum of Modern Art. "The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today," August 1–November 1, 2010, unnumbered cat. (pl. 109; lent by The Bluff Collection, LP).

Kunsthaus Zürich. "FotoSkulptur. Die Fotografie der Skulptur 1839 bis heute," February 25–May 15, 2011, unnumbered cat.

Littérature no. 5 (October 1, 1922), ill. between pp. 10 and 11 (unknown edition), calls it "Vue prise en aéroplane" and dates it 1921.

Robert Lebel. Marcel Duchamp. New York, 1959, pp. 47, 102, 170, no. 146, pl. 97 (unknown edition).

Man Ray. Self Portrait. Boston, 1963, p. 91.

Anne d'Harnoncourt and Kynaston McShine, ed. Marcel Duchamp. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. New York, 1973, pp. 17, 293–94, 321, no. 138, ill. (larger 1964 version).

Richard Hamilton in Marcel Duchamp. Ed. Anne d'Harnoncourt and Kynaston McShine. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. New York, 1973, p. 66.

Kynaston McShine in Marcel Duchamp. Ed. Anne d'Harnoncourt and Kynaston McShine. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. New York, 1973, p. 128.

Bernard Karpel in Marcel Duchamp. Ed. Anne d'Harnoncourt and Kynaston McShine. Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art. New York, 1973, p. 331.

Dickran Tashjian. Skyscraper Primitives: Dada and the American Avant-Garde, 1910–1925. Middletown, Conn., 1975, p. 68.

Roland Penrose. Man Ray. Boston, 1975, pp. 58, 173, 204, fig. 30 (larger 1964 version), calls it "Elevage de poussière (Dust Farm)".

Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray: The Rigour of Imagination. New York, 1977, pp. 233–34, fig. 386 (not this version).

Janus. Man Ray: L'Immagine Fotografica. Venice, 1977, p. 180, no. 5, ill. and ill. p. 21 (not this edition), calls it "Elevage de poussière".

Dawn Ades. Dada and Surrealism Reviewed. Exh. cat., Hayward Gallery. [London], 1978, pp. 51, 170–71, no. 2.29 (not this edition; private collection, Paris), calls it "Elevage de poussière. The breeding ground of dust.".

Arturo Schwarz. Man Ray, Carte Varie e Variabili. Exh. cat., Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea. Milan, 1983, p. 20.

Dawn Ades in In the Mind's Eye: Dada and Surrealism. Ed. Terry Ann R. Neff. Exh. cat., Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. New York, 1984, p. 29.

Jane Livingston in Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston. L’Amour Fou: Photography and Surrealism. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1985, p. 123.

Winifred Schiffman in Rosalind Krauss and Jane Livingston. L'Amour Fou: Photography & Surrealism. Exh. cat., Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. New York, 1985, p. 229.

Sandra S. Phillips in Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, pp. 181, 229 n. 10, fig. 148 (larger 1964 version), calls it "Dust Raising".

Roger Shattuck in Perpetual Motif: The Art of Man Ray. Exh. cat., National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. New York, 1988, pp. 314–15, 330.

Neil Baldwin. Man Ray: American Artist. New York, 1988, pp. 71–72, 325–26.

David Travis in Sarah Greenough et al. On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography. Exh. cat., National Gallery of Art. [Washington, D.C.], 1989, pp. 231, 475, no. 199, ill. p. 263.

Abraham A. Davidson in American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913–1993. Ed. Christos M. Joachimides and Norman Rosenthal. Exh. cat., Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Munich, 1993, pp. 43, 478, no. 15, ill. p. 202.

Francis M. Naumann. New York Dada, 1915–23. New York, 1994, p. 54, ill. p. 51.

Todd Alden in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, p. 294, ill. p. 130.

Rosalind Krauss in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, p. 249.

Linda Dalrymple Henderson in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, pp. 235, 237.

Robert Rosenblum in Francis M. Naumann with Beth Venn. Making Mischief: Dada Invades New York. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, 1996, p. 261, ill.

Arturo Schwarz. The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp. 3rd rev. ed. (1st ed., 1969). New York, 1997, p. 684, pl. 382.

Gilbert Perlein. Man Ray: Retrospective 1912–1976. Exh. cat., Musée d'art moderne et d'art contemporain. Nice, 1997, p. 78.

Yve-Alain Bois. "Entropy: Zone." Formless: A User's Guide. New York, 1997, p. 226.

Alain Sayag in Man Ray: La Photographie à l’envers. Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, 1998, pp. 246, 257, ill. p. 231 (larger 1964 version; collection Manfred Heiting, Amsterdam).

Michel Frizot in Man Ray: La Photographie à l’envers. Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, 1998, p. 24.

Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais in Man Ray: La Photographie à l'envers. Exh. cat., Galeries nationales du Grand Palais. Paris, 1998, p. 59.

Francis M. Naumann. Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Amsterdam, 1999, pp. 83, 112, 117, 196, 316, fig. 3.43.

Emmanuelle de l'Ecotais. "Man Ray, Creator of Surrealist Photography." Man Ray: 1890–1976. Ed. Manfred Heiting. Cologne, 2000, p. 35, ill. p. 157 (larger 1964 version).

Michael R. Taylor in Leah Dickerman. Dada. Exh. cat., Centre Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne, Paris. Washington, D.C., 2005, p. 283, colorpl. 249.

Dawn Ades in Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 90, 92–93.

Katie Croll-Knight in Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 190, 193, 202.

Jennifer Mundy in Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 28, 55, 238.

David Hopkins in Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, pp. 85, 87, fig. 106 (color).

Michael R. Taylor in Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia. Ed. Jennifer Mundy. Exh. cat., Tate Modern. London, 2008, p. 166.

George Baker in Mason Klein. Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention. Exh. cat., Jewish Museum, New York. New Haven, 2009, p. 152, fig. 24 (High Museum of Art edition).

Paul Messier in The Long Arm of Coincidence: Selections from the Rosalind and Melvin Jacobs Collection. Exh. cat., Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York. Göttingen, 2009, unpaginated.

Roxana Marcoci in Roxana Marcoci. The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today. Exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art. New York, 2010, p. 114, colorpl. 109.

Dalia Judovitz. Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company. Minneapolis, 2010, pp. 30, 83–84, 251 n. 77.

David Hopkins. "Duchamp, Surrealism, and 'Liberty': From 'Dust Breeding' to 'Étant donnés'." AKA Marcel Duchamp: Meditations on the Identities of an Artist. Ed. Anne Collins Goodyear and James W. McManus. Washington, D.C., 2014, pp. 61–62, 70, pl. 15A.

Wendy A. Grossman in Man Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare. Ed. Wendy A. Grossman and Edouard Sebline. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C. Ostfildern, 2015, pp. 119, 226, fig. 90 (larger 1964 version; collection Israel Museum, Jerusalem).

Kirsten A. Hoving in Man Ray–Human Equations: A Journey from Mathematics to Shakespeare. Ed. Wendy A. Grossman and Edouard Sebline. Exh. cat., Phillips Collection, Washington, D. C. Ostfildern, 2015, p. 32.

Francis M. Naumann. Man Ray: Continued and Noticed. Exh. cat., Francis M. Naumann Fine Art. New York, 2016, pp. 22, 35 n. 20, colorpl. 25.

Arthur Lubow. Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows. New Haven, 2021, pp. 43–44.

Beth Gates Warren and Marie Difilippantonio. Julien Levy: The Man, His Gallery, His Legacy. [Newtown, Conn.], 2023, vol. 2, p. 472.

Micayla Bransfield in Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson. Man Ray: When Objects Dream. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2025, p. 293.

Stephen C. Pinson in Stephanie D'Alessandro and Stephen C. Pinson. Man Ray: When Objects Dream. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 2025, pp. 88–89, 301, colorpl. 55.