Scope and Contents The etchings were made by Villon and the text based upon 1920's text written by Crotti. Born in Bulle, Switzerland, Crotti first studied painting in Munich when he was eighteen, and after a year under Jules Lefevre at the Academie Julian in Paris, he abandoned formal instruction. He exhibited regularly at the Salon des Independants beginning in 1908, at the Salon d'Automne from 1910 and Salon des Tulliers in 1927. The critical event of his artistic career was his arrival in June 1915 in New York, where he worked closely with Marcel Duchamp, joined the New York Dada group, and met Picabia. Crotti produced mechanical drawings, wire constructions, and collages on glass and metal. Returning to Paris in 1919, he married Suzanne Duchamp. Together in July 1921 they launched a new movement, Tabu-Dada (apparently inspired by Picabia), which Crotti described as the expression of "Mystery...That which cannot be seen...That which cannot be touched." In Crotti's Tabu work, spheres and sectors...

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The cover of this catalogue has a reproduction of Marcoussis's portrait of Apollinaire. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.