Marcel Duchamp

1887–1968

Marcel Duchamp - Fountain

Fountain 1917, replica 1964
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BIOGRAPHY

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French-American painter, sculptor, chess player and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, conceptual art, and Dada, although he was careful about his use of the term Dada and was not directly associated with Dada groups. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the twentieth century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. Duchamp has had an immense impact on twentieth-century and twenty first-century art; and he had a seminal influence on the development of conceptual art. By World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (like Henri Matisse) as "retinal" art, intended only to please the eye. Instead, Duchamp wanted to use art to serve the mind.

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ARTWORKS

  • Marcel Duchamp - Fountain

    Fountain

    1917, replica 1964

  • Marcel Duchamp - The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)

    The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass)

    1915–23, reconstruction by Richard Hamilton 1965–6, lower panel remade 1985

  • Marcel Duchamp - The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even (The Green Box)

    The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even (The Green Box)

    1934

  • Marcel Duchamp - 3 stoppages étalon (3 Standard Stoppages)

    3 stoppages étalon (3 Standard Stoppages)

    1921, replica 1964

  • Marcel Duchamp - Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?

    Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?

    1921, replica 1964

  • Marcel Duchamp - The Third Love Painting

    Female Fig Leaf

    1950, cast 1961

  • Marcel Duchamp - The Third Love Painting

    Fresh Widow

    1920, replica 1964

  • Marcel Duchamp - The Third Love Painting

    1920, replica 1964

    1954, cast 1963

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