Fresh Widow, Duchamp (Verbal Description)

Description

Fresh Widow is one of Duchamp?s ?readymades??commonplace objects that the artist signed and then exhibited as art. Working with a dealer in 1964, Duchamp oversaw the production of eight reproductions of his original Fresh Widow, of which this is the second. The title is a pun on the phrase ?French window,? which alludes to both the doors commonly found in Parisian apartments and the new generation of widows created by World War I.