Arturo Schwarz, Scholar Who Decrypted Duchamp’s Elusive Art, Is Dead at 97

Arturo Schwarz, an influential art historian who wrote one of the defining books on Marcel Duchamp, has died. Exibart reported that Schwarz died on either June 22 or 23 in Genoa, Italy, at age 97.
For many, Schwarz’s greatest achievement is his two-volume book The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp. First published in 1969, the book elucidated the hidden ideas at play in the artist’s cryptic Dada creations. It was not the first monograph ever devoted to Duchamp, though it remains one o