Duchamp, Suzanne

If taken literally, which one should not do (but which some Duchamp exegetes have done) , such a union between Brother and Sister—in this case, Marcel and Suzanne—would, obviously, result in incest. Nevertheless, even this kind of apparently dysfunctional familial perversion also has own quaintly allegorical, hence rather innocent, significance in Alchemy. Given the length accorded to the topic of Inceste by Pernety, evidently there is much potential alchemical significance to the theme ... 

Letter to Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti (11 April 1917), in Camfield, Duchamp s Fountain, 71—72 Une de mes amies sous un pseudonyme masculin, Richard Mutt, avait envoye une pissotiere. . . see also Daniels, 177, 328 n. 31. 

Duchamp, M. Affectueusement [et] Amicalement, Marcel Letters from Marcel Duchamp to Suzanne Duchamp and Jean Crotti [and] to Walter Pach. Ed. E Naumaim. Archives of American Art Journal Tl (1982) 2-19 29 (1989) 36-50. 

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