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New York Times - Dec. 22, 1995 working forever. During much of hospital with a free clinic attached, its construction, Mrs. Duchamp and his second wife, the former Ag- Alexina Duchamp, the widow was her husband's sole confi- nes Mitchell. of Marcel Duchamp, died on dante. Alexina Sattler was born She at first thought of becoming Wednesday at an artist and for her home in Vil- a time studied liers-sous-Grez, sculpture with near Paris. She Brancusi in Paris. was 89. As a for- In December 1929 mer daughter-in- she married the law of Henri Ma- son of Henri Ma- tisse, the widow tisse, Pierre, who of Duchamp and was to become a a close friend of distinguished art John Cage and dealer on Madison Jasper Johns, Avenue. When she was in her her husband was later years the mobilized in Paris unquestioned at the outbreak of doyenne of the World War II, she survivors of a ran the gallery for great age in art, some months. dance and music. After a divorce She had close from Pierre Ma- ties to Philadel- tisse in 1949, phia and took she married Du- pride in being an champ in 1954. honorary trust- They lived in New ee of its Muse- York, in Paris and um of Art, which in the summer has by far the in Cadaques in largest collection northern Spain. of Duchamp's After Duchamp's work. She was death in 1968, delighted when she became close in 1967 his last to the composer major work, the Cage and to a new scenographic circle of friends. “Etant Donnes,” She is survived by or “Given,” was the three children installed there. of her marriage to “Etant Donnes” Matisse, Jacque- had been built in line, Paul and Pe- secret in New York between 1964 in Cincinnati on Jan. 6, 1906, the ter, and by 12 grandchildren. and 1966, a time when Duchamp daughter of Dr. Robert Sattler, an was believed to have stopped ophthalmologist who ran his own John Russell

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