, 2008. Fibreglass stone and airplane. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Purchased 2011. Photo © Roman März](/images/content/menuSeeGallery.png)
Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Monte Carlo Bond, 1924-1938
Marcel Duchamp
French, 1887
- 1968
offset lithograph in red, black, green, and yellow on wove paper
31.9 x 21.8 cm irregular; image: 31.4 x 20.3 cm irregular
Purchased 1975
National Gallery of Canada (no. 18395)
© Estate of Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP / SODRAC
While in Monte Carlo in 1924, Duchamp devised a system to underwrite his new interest in gambling: he would sell bonds with a face value of five hundred francs and promise their buyers a dividend of twenty percent, which would be funded from his eventual winnings at the roulette table. On each of the bonds Duchamp included this hilarious photograph of himself (by his friend Man Ray), his head covered in shaving cream and his hair shaped into little horns like the mythical Pan, the son of the gambling god, Hermes. He sold only one or two of the bonds.
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