Was Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ actually created by a long-forgotten pioneering feminist?
In March 1917, the Philadelphia-based modernist painter George Biddle hired a 42-year-old German woman as a model. She visited him in his studio, and Biddle told her that he wished to see her naked. The model threw open her scarlet raincoat... By John Higgs.
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