Jean Crotti. Mouvement Cosmique (Cosmic Movement), 1921

Silkscreen on wove paper, 62 x 48 cm, image 47.5 x 36 cm. Numbered 14/70 in pencil in lower left, signed in print 'J. Crotti 21'. Produced after the original oil painting held in the collection of the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. The print shows restoration and retouching in the centre of the piece (see pictures) and is mounted at the top margin in a passe-partout, 70 x 50 cm.

Swiss-born painter Jean Crotti (1878-1958) worked primarily in Paris and New York. In 1915 he shared a studio with Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia in New York, and set up the influential avant-garde magazine '291' with Alfred Stieglitz, launching the Dada movement in America. Together with his wife, Suzanne Duchamp (Marcel Duchamp's sister), he launched the short-lived movement Tabu Dada (1921–22), an offshoot of Dada.