At the same time, the Puteaux group called itself the “Section d’Or” and organized a salon at the Galerie de la Boétie. In addition to the Duchamp brothers, other artists exhibited included Archipenko, Delaunay, Kupka, Gleizes, Juan Gris, Léger, Metzinger, Picabia…

Their growing fame enabled Duchamp-Villon to welcome the Americans Arthur B. Davies and Walt Kuhn to his studio. Davies and Walt Kuhn to his studio through Walter Pach. His works, along with those of his two brothers, Jacques and Marcel, were selected to take part the following year in the International Exhibition of Modern Art in New York, known as the « Armory Show », alongside sculptures by Archipenko, Brancusi, Epstein and Lehmbruck.

Remaining in Paris, Duchamp-Villon prepared for the Salon d’Automne of 1913, for which he unveiled his bas-relief « Les Amants » in the cubist hall, combining movement and bodies with schematized lines, as well as the reliefs adorning André Mare’s boudoir.