Marcel Duchamp’s window display (the mannequin is his & #39;Lazy Existence& #39;) at the Gotham Book Mart, NYC for André Breton’s & #39;Arcane 17& #39; in 1944. Maya Deren took the photograph, capturing Breton himself reflected in the window.

Modernist artists and NYC window dressing seems to have been quite a thing. Here& #39;s Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns& #39; window for Bonwit Teller, 1950 (the Duchamp piece in the previous tweet is of course & #39;Lazy Hardware& #39;, the lazy existence is entirely mine).

Tom Lee& #39;s Bonwit Teller window c. 1938

Bonwit Teller early 1940s by Dali

Andy Warhol’s Bonwit Teller window, 1957. All the photos in this thread are from & #39;The American Store Window& #39; by Leonard S. Marcus, 1978.