Its first owner was Dr. Raymond Dumouchel, himself the subject of another 1910 painting by Duchamp, Portrait of Dr.

[1] One of the models may be Jeanne Serre, with whom Duchamp had a relationship and fathered a child, Yvonne,[2] who later became known as Yo Savy [fr].

Duchamp noted that the painting marks the beginning of a practice of attaching non-descriptive titles to his work: "Introduce some anecdote without being 'anecdotal'"; the painting did not illustrate a definite theme, but the title created "the possibility to invent a theme for it, afterwards.

"[2][3] Duchamp included a facsimile of The Bush in the Boîte-en-valise.

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