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== Personal life == Throughout his adult life, Duchamp was a passionate smoker of Habana cigars.<ref>{{cite web |author=door K-films |url=http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdxdm6_les-grandes-repetitions-extraits-de_music |title=see him on film |publisher=Dailymotion.com |date=5 July 2010 |access-date=11 May 2014 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512220326/http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xdxdm6_les-grandes-repetitions-extraits-de_music |archive-date=12 May 2014}}</ref> Duchamp became a United States citizen in 1955.<ref>{{cite web |title=Marcel Duchamp |url=https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/marcel-duchamp |website=Guggenheim |access-date=26 June 2017 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170703130334/https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/marcel-duchamp |archive-date=3 July 2017}}</ref> In June 1927, Duchamp married {{ill|Lydie Sarazin-Levassor|fr|Lydie Sarazin-Levassor|lt=Lydie Sarazin-Levassor;}} however, they divorced six months later. It was rumored that Duchamp had chosen a [[marriage of convenience]], because Sarazin-Levassor was the daughter of a wealthy automobile manufacturer. Early in January 1928, Duchamp said that he could no longer bear the responsibility and confinement of marriage, and they were soon divorced.<ref>[[Pontus HultΓ©n|Hulten, Pontus]]. ''Marcel Duchamp, Work and Life: Ephemerides on and about Marcel Duchamp and Rrose Selavy, 1887β1968.'' Pages 8β9 June (1927) to 25 January (1928). {{ISBN|0-262-08225-X}}.</ref> Between 1946 and 1951 [[Maria Martins (artist)|Maria Martins]] was his mistress.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/arts/design/28duchamp.html?pagewanted=all&_r=2& |title=Landscape of Eros, Through the Peephole |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=27 August 2009 |website=The New York Times |access-date=22 February 2018}}</ref> In 1954, he and [[Alexina Duchamp|Alexina "Teeny" Sattler]] married. They remained together until his death. Duchamp was an atheist.<ref>{{cite book|title=Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp|publisher=Da Capo Press|isbn=9780786749713|page=106|quote=Cabanne: "Do you believe in God?" Duchamp: "No, not at all."|date=21 July 2009}}</ref>
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