Eve Babitz (1943- ) parents were friends with the composer Igor Stravinsky who was her godfather. Her first brush with notoriety came through Julian Wasser’s photo of a nude, twenty-year-old Babitz playing chess with the artist Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of his landmark retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of Art (since absorbed into the Norton Simon) curated by Walter Hopps, with whom incidentally Babitz was having an affair.
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