Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor. A Marriage in Check - The Heart of the Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelor, Even

Paul Edwards (1)

1 LARCA UMR 8225 - Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones

Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage, presents us with “her” Marcel, and relates her encounters with Jacques Doucet, Constantin Brancusi, Henri-Pierre Roché, Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse, Jean Cocteau, the Ballets Russes, the Duchamp family, Jean Crotti, Mary Rumsey, Katherine Dreier and Robert Desnos, and describes the atmosphere at the Villons’ (in Puteaux, just outside Paris), the Picabias’ (at Mougins, in the South of France) and the Sarazin-Levassors’ (in Étretat, on the Normandy coast). English translation of Lydie Sarazin-Levassor's Un échec matrimonial – Le cœur de la mariée mis à nu par son célibataire même, published by Les presses du réel in 2004.

Mots clés: Marcel Duchamp; Picabia; Man Ray

Domaines: Littératures; Art et histoire de l'art

Paul Edwards. Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor. A Marriage in Check - The Heart of the Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelor, Even: Translated from the French by Paul Edwards. Les Presses du Réel, 2007, Avant-gardes, 978-2-84066-217-4. ⟨hal-01478066⟩