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Case the Case: 11, rue Larrey (from Leave to Remain) Duchamp: “About the war, there is no significant news. No important move forward, no move backward. A hopeless equilibrium.” Paris between doors. Rrose, are you making two faces? New York between wars? Subject considered by the discharge board too sick. Duchamp: “I do not go to New York, I leave Paris. It is altogether different. For a long time and even before the war, I have disliked this ‘artistic life’ in which I was involved.—It is the exact opposite of what I want. So I had tried to somewhat escape from the artists through the library. Then during the war, I felt increasingly more incompatible with this milieu. I absolutely wanted to leave. Where to? New York was my only choice, because I knew you there. I hope to be able to avoid an artistic life there, possibly with a job which would keep me very busy. […] Yet, since you warn me against New York, if I cannot live there any more than Paris, I could always come back, or go somewhere else.” Back from New York: “Une porte ni ouverte ni fermée…” >>>….….……..<<< STUDIO AND DOOR “Eau et gaz à tous les étages” in white on blue enamel. We are feet among casuals in front of 11, rue Larrey, where our target lived from 1927 to 1942. Nothing remains of the studio itself (furniture & woodwork by Duchamp & Man Ray, plumbing by Pevsner and, later, a paravent by Jacques Herold.) Behind us, la Grande Mosquée de Paris, a celebrated inauguration in 1926 that was visible from the studio the year Duchamp arrived. The