The most fascinating fact about Fountain is the al­most total absence of any critical reception from May the 5th 1917 until it started to reappear after the Second World War. Stieglitz’ photograph was first reproduced in an article by Harriet and Sidney Janis in the Duchamp issue of View 1945. Five years later, Sidney Janis asked Duchamp if he could buy an uri­noir for his Duchamp-exhibition the next year, which he could, and he installed it, not 90 degrees tipped as on the Stieglitz photograph, but ‘correct­ly’, albeit rather close to the floor, “so that litt­le boys could use it”, as Duchamp later com­mented the installation.