The 1963 photograph Nude Playing Chess, by Julian Wasser, features Eve Babitz playing chess in the nude with the fully clothed Surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp, referencing Duchamp’s famous painting Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2). The photo gave Babitz her first brush with notoriety. But in an essay published in Esquire in 1991, she wrote about her ambivalence about being a muse in the art world.
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