Description: MARCEL DUCHAMP (FRENCH-AMERICAN, 1887 - 1968)
Coffee Mill
Etching, signed in plate. According to Duchamp's recollection, "I made this old-fashioned coffee mill for him. It shows the different facets of the coffee grinding operation and the handle on top is seen simultaneously in several positions as it revolves. You can see the ground coffee in a heap under the cogwheels of the central shaft, which turns in the directions of the arrow on top" (d'Harnoncourt/McShine, Marcel Duchamp, 1973, page 256).