Marcel Duchamp 1887-1968

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» “Artist, born in Blainville, France. The brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and half brother of Jacques Villon, he became famous with ‘Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2’ (1912) exhibited at the New York Armory Show (1913), and was a founder of the Société Anonyme,New York (1920), an organization promoting nonobjective art.

An intermittent visitor to New York, he led the American Dada movement that tried to convey the absurdity of life. He was among the first to construct mobiles and to produce works made of found (junk) objects. His glass,wire, and painted foil construction, ‘The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even’ (1915-23), was one of his last major works. One of his most famous pieces was ‘L.H.O.O.Q’, a reproduction of Leonardo’s ‘Mona Lisa’ to which he added a moustache and goatee. Settling in the USA(1942), he became a US citizen in 1955 and virtually abandoned art in his final decades to concentrate on playing chess.” SOURCE

Nude Descending the Staircase

Nude_no2 (Large)

The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, 1915-1923
“It took eleven years to bring this work to what Duchamp called a state of “final incompletion.” Only when it was accidentally cracked in 1926 did Duchamp announce that it was “finished.”‘

Duchamp-Bride

Fountain

Bicycle (found objects)

Hat Rack

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“Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q., 1919, rectified readymade, pencil on a reproduction — a chromolithograph, 7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches, private collection, Paris. As if the addition of mustache and beard weren’t enough of a poke at this most famous of paintings, the letters Duchamp penciled — L.H.O.O.Q. — at the bottom of his altered image are meaningless in themselves, but when read aloud in French, make the sound of “Elle a chaud au cul,” meaning, “She has a hot ass.”‘

Dlhooq

Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas
(Etant Donnés: 1° La Chute d’eau, 2° Le gaz d’éclairage ), 1946-66
Outside and inside (The Philadelphia Museum of Art)

Given