Introduction

In the 1950s and 1960s, Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray forged particularly close relationships with scholar-poet-dealer Arturo Schwarz, and these artists were the focus of numerous solo or group exhibitions at the Galleria Schwarz in Milan between 1954 and 1975. Schwarz produced editioned replicas of 14 of Marcel Duchamp’s readymades in 1964–65, and editioned replicas of 10 of Man Ray’s objects in 1963–64 and 1971, in close cooperation with each of the artists.