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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;mirana, post: 9601542, member: 79705&quot;]I did not state who it was by, to be clear. I&#039;m aware of the unknown origin of the work. There are different theories. Like Duchamp, being on the board of the new Society that was presenting the show, and wanting to test their position of accepting all works, had the piece dropped off by a female friend in addition to using the fake name. Or that when he wrote to his sister about it being by a female friend, he may have meant his female alter ego <a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp#Rrose_S%C3%A9lavy" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp#Rrose_S%C3%A9lavy" rel="nofollow">Rrose Sélavy</a>.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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