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Artist: Marcel Duchamp (1887 - 1968)
Nationality: French
Movement: Dadaism
Media: Painting, Sculpture
Influences:

Biography:
Marcel Duchamp studied in Paris, where he acquired the stimulus of Cézanne and the Fauves. He later combined the properties of Cubism and Futurism, to create a revolutionary piece entitled Nude Descending a Staircase. Duchamp was also the creator of the ready-made in 1913 , an everyday object transformed by its context. For example, in Duchamp’s 1917 piece, Fountain, he exhibited a unmodified urinal as his sculpture. In 1915, he moved to New York and became an influential figure in American Dadaism. His later works were intending to be playful and humorous, but also rebellions against the stiff nature of the art world.


Artworks in Museum Collections: (60)
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Marcel Duchamp - Box in a Valise (From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Selavy) 1935-41 leather valise conta The Museum of Modern Art French
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Man Ray - Marcel Duchamp as Rrose Selavy c. 1920-21 gelatin silver print Philadelphia Museum of Art American
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Jacques Villon Jacques oil on canvas 1924
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Jacques Villon Baudelaire Etching 1921
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Jacques Villon La Faute Aquatint 1904
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Marcel Duchamp Le BoÓte en Valise de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose SÈlavy (The Box in the Valise of or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose SÈlavy) no. VII from the deluxe edition (Series A) Leather valise containing miniature replicas, photographs,
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Jacques Villon Sur les rochers (On the Rocks) Etching 1927
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Jacques Villon Daguerrotype #1 Etching 1927
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Jacques Villon Le Peintre (The Painter) Etching 1931
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Joseph Stella and Marcel Duchamp
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Jacques Villon Le Philosophe (The Philosopher) Etching 1930
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Jacques Villon La Lutte (The Contest) Etching with drypoint 1939
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Jacques Villon Nu se coiffant (Nude doing her Hair) Drypoint 1933
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Jacques Villon Homme Lisant (Reading Man) Etching 1929
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Jacques Villon Portrait Etching 19th - 20th century
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Jacques Villon Duo Galant Color lithograph 1905
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Jacques Villon Girl in a hat and veil Color aquatint 1925
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Jacques Villon Nature Morte Color aquatint 1923
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Jacques Villon Le Village de Mougins (The Village of Mougins) Drypoint 1934
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Jacques Villon Mariee (The Bride) Color aquatint 1930
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Jacques Villon L'Effort (The Effort) Etching with drypoint 1939
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Jacques Villon Daguerrotype #2 Etching 19th - 20th century
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Jacques Villon Devant un Guignol Drypoint in two tones 1909
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Jacques Villon Composition (Abstraction) Color aquatint and roulette 1927
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Duchamp with Water Mill Within Glider
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Jacques Villon Bal du Moulin Rouge Etching in olive green 1910
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Jacques Villon Kneeling nude girl, leaning over a tableside Drypoint 1908
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Jacques Villon Les Lampes (The Lamps) Etching and aquatint printed in colors 1951
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Jacques Villon Composition (L'Envole) color lithograph 19th - 20th century
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Jacques Villon Les trois ordres (The three orders: The Castle, the Church, the Country) Etching 1939
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Jacques Villon Les Yeux Futiles (The Futile Eyes) Etching and color aquatint 1956
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Jacques Villon After Jacques Villon Lithograph printed in colors (exhibition poster, 1957) 1957
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Jacques Villon Le Potin (The Gossip) Aquatint and drypoint in olive green 1905
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Jacques Villon Les Vingt Ans Fiers (The Wild Twenty Years) Etching and drypoint 1930 - 1931
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Jacques Villon Two Women on a Terrace by the Sea Color aquatint, etching and roulette 1922
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Marcel Duchamp Obligation Montecarlo - Monte Carlo Bond Color lithograph with photograph 1938
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Jacques Villon Coursier (Courser: a spirited horse) Lithograph printed in colors 19th - 20th century
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Jacques Villon Autre temps: 1830 (Times Past: 1830) Color aquatint and drypoint 1904
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Jacques Villon Plate X from: Hesiode, Les Travaux et les Jours (Hesiodos, The Works and Days) Sugar lift aquatint 19th - 20th century
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Jacques Villon D'ou l'on tourne l'epaule a la vie (from where one turns the shoulder to life: an allegory inspired by "Fenetres" a poem by Stephane Mallarme) Etching 1939
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Barbara Galuszka Parsons A Rematch for Marcel Duchamp and Eve Babitz woodcut 1992
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Marcel Duchamp
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Marcel Duchamp - 3 Standard Stoppages 1913-1914 wooden box glued to The Museum of Modern Art French
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Marcel Duchamp - Wedge of Chastity 1954 plaster in two secti The Museum of Modern Art French
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Marcel Duchamp - Network of Stoppages 1914 oil and pencil on ca The Museum of Modern Art French
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VVV, Nos. 1 (June 1942)–4 (February 1944) New York: VVV, 1942-1944Serial publication, illustrated; 4 nos.
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Marcel Duchamp - Bicycle Wheel 1951 metal wheel mounted The Museum of Modern Art French
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Marcel Duchamp - Boite-en-valise (Box in a Valise) 1966 mixed media University of California, Berkeley Art Museum French
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Marcel Duchamp - Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) 1912 oil on canvas Philadelphia Museum of Art American
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Marcel Duchamp - The Passage from Virgin to Bride 1912 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art French
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Marcel Duchamp - Fresh Window 1920 Miniature French Win The Museum of Modern Art French
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Marcel Duchamp - Rotary Demisphere (Precision Optics) 1925 painted wood demisph The Museum of Modern Art French
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Marcel Duchamp - The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) 1915-23 oil, varnish, lead f Philadelphia Museum of Art American
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Marcel Duchamp - La Mariee a nu par ses celibataires, meme (The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box)) 1934 illustrated book The Museum of Modern Art French
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Le Cheval (1914) by DUCHAMP-VILLON Raymond (dit), DUCHAMP Maurice Raymond (patronyme)
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Self-Portrait with Chess Set
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PATIENCE (1933) by DUCHAMP Gaston, VILLON Jacques (dit)
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Marcel Gromaire Vers un monde volage by Henri Hertz (Paris: Marcel Seheur, 1926) book with 10 etchings 1926
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Raymond Duchamp-Villon - Baudelaire 1911 Terracotta The Art Institute of Chicago French
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Raymond Duchamp-Villon - Horse 1914 bronze The Art Institute of Chicago French

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (40)
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Gallery 218: After Duchamp: 23 Works of Art from US Artists
The "players" or Artists exhibiting (in no particular order, of course) are: Elaine Fisher, (MA), Florence Alfano McEwin (WY), Thomas Kovacich (WI), George Jones V.(WI), Fred Stein (WI), Ron Koehler (MS), Carl S. Richards (MA), Jean Sobon (WI), He...

Everson Musuem of Art: Still Life Paintings from the Collection
Lie’s painting did not engender the same puzzlement or derision as did some of the works shown at the Armory by his more experimental colleagues (Duchamp’s Nude Descendi...

Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Photographs of Artists
Don't miss this opportunity to come face to face with artists represented in the Gallery's collection such as Henri...

Marcello's Art Factory: Call for Artists: Urban Ready Mades
The Urban Ready Mades or URM project's approach core is similar but leaning more towards the urban scene (street, object, view, event). A URM is something in an urban environment that isn't originally meant to be art but could be. The project is l...

Kunsthalle Wien, Museumsquartier: Tableaux Vivants: Living Pictures and Attitudes in Photography, Film, and Video
This exhibition is an attempt, in several sections, to keep track of the history and the transformations of the medium. It starts out with photographic pieces from the 19th century that still tried to translate ...

Hayward Gallery: Force Fields: Phases of the Kinetic
Over 100 paintings, sculptures, drawings, installations and films made by artists from the 1920s to the early 1980s have been brought together by the exhibition’s curator Guy Brett. Among the seminal works in the show are Calder’s early mobiles, D...

Modern Museum of Art: Modern Starts: Things
In painting, the still-life genre, with its focus on the representation of objects, experienced a renewed interest. Beginning with P...

Louvre Musuem: Possess and Destroy. Sexual Strategies in Western Art
And yet, for a long time we have stopped seeing these images as what they are: an inexhaustible and cruel metaphor of what we call with a ...

Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery: Surface Invention: Post-1945 Graphic Art
Visitors will be able to make connections with artists such as Joe Tilson, Richard Hamilton, Henry Moore and John Salt who are exhibiting in both these events. Tilson's Transparency, The Five Senses ? Taste, a stylised version of Marilyn Mon...

Vancouver Art Gallery: The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture
Modern culture’s representation of the cyborg shuttles between a celebratory fascination with the machine and an intense anxiety around masculinity and mechanical equipment. Key historical works will include a 19th century automaton, 19th Century...

Museum of Contemporary Art Barcelona: RAYMOND HAINS
The techniques of appropriation which Raymond Hains constantly uses are complex cultural operations, the basis of which lies in the play of language and the laws of the unconscious formulated by psychoanalysis. Following in the tradition of Raymond...

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College: Summer Reading: The Recreation of Language in Twentieth-Century Art
Drawn from the collections of the Loeb Art Center and 14 public and private sources, this international survey unites paintings, photographs, prints, drawings, collages, books and book-objects, poet-artist collaborations, and more by over 50 ar...

Art Gallery of Bishop's University: Fabienne Lasserre: The Cave
The imposing atmosphere, which contributes greatly to the magic in this work, is created by the accumulation of the stacks of televisions placed throughout the space of the gallery, which is no longer shared only by the spectator. The electric dro...

Walker Art Center: A PRACTICAL DREAMER: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF MAN RAY
Organized by the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, and drawn from its extensive collection of photographs, the exhibition focuses on Man Ray’s photographic work and includes 100 vintage prints spanning the period from 1916 to the...

Chatham Cultural Centre, Thames Art Gallery: War Stories for Children and Art Stories for Adults: Recent Paintings and Sculptures byTony Calzetta
This exhibition has been organized by the Thames Art Gallery and will circulate to galleries in the Yukon, Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario. A 24 page catalogue with color plates and essays by Liz Wylie and Kate Regan is available. Excerpt f...

John Elder Gallery: Tetsuya Yamada, CHANT: Beyond the Ready-made
Never content to ride on past successes, Yamada has broken new ground with a fantastic body of cast and glazed porcelain works.  Each form is repeated and then placed in rows of varying length, and placed on simple wooden constructions.  When Duch...

National Gallery of Art: Deceptions and Illusions: Five Centuries of Trompe l’Oeil Painting
This exhibition is generously supported by Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk. It is supported by an indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities. "Throughout the ages, trompe l’oeil has always been one of the most popular genre...

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA
Treasures of Modern Art: The Legacy of Phyllis Wattis at SFMOMA is an exclusive SFMOMA presentation; the exhibition is co-organized by Madeleine Grynsztejn, the Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, and John S. Weber, the Leanne ...

Modern Museum: Rosemarie Trockel
Rosemarie Trockel was the official representative of Germany at the Venice Biennale in 1999. Her piece Haus für Schweine und Menschen, which she ...

Malmo Konsthall: Jacob Dahlgren and Katarina Lofstrom: Visual and Emotional
By creating what we experience as abstract images, the artists on the one hand set us free from the limiting literalness of pure representation and make possible narratives (and emotions) with multiple layers of meaning in us, the observers. On...

ART6 Gallery: Totemic Magic: Suzanna Biro and Frederick Chiriboga.
Suzanna Biro studied and traveled in Colombia, S.A. for more than three years learning weaving, pottery and painting from artists in villages throughout the country. She also studied sculpture and drawing in New York City. Her mixed media ...

Tate Gallery: Abracadabra: International Contempory Art
Another crucial characteristic which these artists share is that they address the real world and everyday life, and their art is therefore further distinguished by its combination of the real and the imaginat...

Art Gallery of New South Wales: Len Lye: Experimental Filmmaker, Sculptor, Photographer and Writer
'the least boring person who ever lived' Poet Alistair Reid As an experimental filmmaker, sculptor, photographer and writer, Len Lye was a diverse original, eccentric and celebrated artist. Commemorating the centennial year of his birth, ...

Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago: Sky-Wreck, a Large Site-specific Textile work by Chicago-based Conceptual Artist Helen Mirra
For her exhibition at The Society, Mirra has created Sky-Wreck, a work based on the geodesic designs of Buckminster Fuller, utopian engineer, inventor, cartographer and architect, best remembered for the geodesic dome. Sky-Wreck consist of 110 ...

Deutsche Guggenheim: Douglas Gordon‘s The VANITY of Allegory
For The VANITY of Allegory, Gordon turned to the histories of art and film for his source material, appropriating existing works as so many readymades with which to articulate his theme. His installation — which houses its own cinema — includes lo...

Tate Gallery, Liverpool: Figurative Art at the End of the Century
Many of these works have only just been acquired by the Tate and are on show in Liverpool for the first time. Together, they create a powerful spectacle and raise issues ...

Michael Dunev Art Projects: Sculpture by Manuel Sola / 20th Century Avantgarde
Their strong verticality recall the totems and ceremonial figures of African and Oceanic cutlures, and like them, give material sense to a spiritual world shared by all humanity. They are prayers to a world that is unravelling, presented with humi...

Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery: Moments in Time: Master Photographs from the Currier
I think there is enough variety in this exhibit to pique people's interest,'' says Maureen Ahern, director of the Thorne-Sagendorph. Photographs range from portraits of scientists Albert Einstein and Charles Darwin to artists Andy Warhol and...

Walker Art Center: Quartet: Barney, Gober, Levine, Walker
For this exhibition, Barney will create a room focused on the diverse sculptural and photographic elements of Cremaster 2, which premiered at the Walker in 1999. Since the early 1980s, Robert Gober has developed a body of work informed by cult...

MENIL COLLECTION: Remembering Saul Steinberg
Exhibition curator Walter Hopps was already at work selecting some twenty drawings for a Steinberg show when the artist died last May at the age of 84. “Steinberg was not just a cartoonist,” says Hopps, “but the wittiest member of the New ...

National Gallery of Canada: REFLECTIONS ON THE ARTIST: SELF-PORTRAITS AND PORTRAITS
Visitors to the exhibition will have a wonderful opportunity to observe a captivating and diverse selection of portraits, some light-hearted and humorous in tone, others more serious and reflective in nature, said Pierre Théberge, Director, Na...

Jewish Museum: ALIAS MAN RAY : THE ART OF REINVENTION
The Jewish Museum will present Alias Man Ray: The Art of Reinvention from November 15, 2009 through March 14, 2010, a major exhibition considering how the artist‚s life and career were shaped by his turn-of-the-century American Jewish immigrant ex...

Computer Arts Gallery: Animal Nature : Powerful Paintings, Drawings and Digital Prints by Hyacinthe Kuller-Baron
Hyacinthe's masterful Drawings in charcoal capture images of animal subjects in what Marcel Duchamp described as "a drawing technique so succinct the artist proves she is one of the finest draughtsmen alive today." Digitally rendered prin...

Jen Bekman: The Girl's Room: By The Dreier Project
It allows for the viewer to see the work without the material being the message. The artwork itself will be the message and perhaps answer some questions about the place of women’s artwork in the art world. Questions such as: What sort of work a...

Royal Academy of the Arts: Joseph Beuys: The Secret Block for a Secret Person in
Beuys selected the drawings for the mysteriously-named The Secret Block for a Secret Person in Ireland himself, from his output between 1936 and 1976, adding to the block throughout his career until it reached a total of 456 sheets. For B...

Museum of Modern Art: Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now
Founded in Zurich in 1984, the contemporary art journal Parkett has taken an innovative approach to magazine publishing. For each volume, artists are chosen to collaborate in the publishing process: they suggest authors to write on their work, con...

Guggenheim Museum, Berlin: Jeff Koons: Easyfun-Ethereal
His suite of new paintings, commissioned for Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, will develop from his recent series of mirror works and paintings entitled Easyfun. The oil paintings fr...

Joan Miro Foundation: Woman. Metamorphosis of Modernity
The list of artists comprises Tarsila do Amaral, Gertrude Arndt, Jean Arp/Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Georges Braque, Louise Bourgeois, Marianne Breslauer, Claude Cahun, Imogen Cunningham, Marcel Duchamp, Valie Export, Emmanuel Goundouin, Lotte Jacobi, Yv...

Kunsthaus Bregenz: Fragmente Bregenz 2003: Gerhard Merz
Gerhard Merz, born in 1947, studied painting at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Today he lives in Pescia near Lucca, Italy, and in Berlin; he teaches at the Düsseldorf Academy of Art. Since the mid-seventies he has been developing a concept...

secession: WALTER OBHOLZER, ROZA EL-HASSAN
In his 1992 essay on the conceptual in Austrian contemporary art, Markus Brüderlin stated that not only had a genuine extension of Duchamp’s idea of art taken place in Vienna, but also that the idea of art as context had been processed on a formal...

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