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Marcel Duchamp
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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a 20th century French painter, sculptor, and writer.
1887-1968
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Rotoreliefs (Optical Disks) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/217891
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Sumers Conant
November 15, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174618
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November 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174569
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November 14, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Bottle Rack (Porte-Bouteilles) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/238749/
Marcel Duchamp began his career as a painter of conventional portraits and nudes. By 1912, however, he set out to prove the end of “retinal art”—pictures created to delight the eye—in order to “put painting once again at the service of the mind.” His answer was the “readymade,” an ordinary object transformed into a work of art by virtue of the artist selecting it. Taken out of context, repositioned, and signed by the artist, the readymade upended tradition and artistic convention by revolutionizing the way we think about what an artwork is, how it is produced, and the ways in which it is exhibited. In 1914 Duchamp purchased this mass-produced bottle rack at a department store. He felt free to acquire new versions for exhibitions and display after his sister accidentally discarded the “original.” He selected the present version for the 1959 exhibition Art and the Found Object in New York. Artist Robert Rauschenberg acquired Bottle Rack and asked Duchamp to sign it. He obliged, writing in French, “Impossible for me to recall the original phrase M.D. / Marcel Duchamp /1960.” Through prior gifts of Mary and Leigh Block, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Culberg, and Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf; Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection Fund; through prior gift of Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection; Sheila Anne Morgenstern in memory of Dorothy O. Morgenstern and William V. Morgenstern; through prior bequests of Joseph Winterbotham and Mima de Manziarly Porter; Ada Turnbull Hertle and Modern Discretionary funds
November 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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After love https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/after-love-1968
After love
November 14, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Fresh Widow http://www.moma.org/collection/works/81028
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November 14, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174626
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November 13, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Bicycle Wheel https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/bicycle-wheel-1913
Bicycle Wheel
November 13, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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The Bec Auer https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/the-bec-auer-1967
The Bec Auer
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174627
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November 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Portrait of Gustave Candel's Mother https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/portrait-of-gustave-candel-s-mother-1912
Portrait of Gustave Candel's Mother
November 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174602
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November 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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Selected Details after Rodin https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/selected-details-after-rodin-1968
Selected Details after Rodin
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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Speculations from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/18742
Gift of Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc.
November 12, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy? http://www.moma.org/collection/works/81966
Gift of Galleria Schwarz
November 11, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174623
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November 11, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Glider Containing a Water Mill in Neighboring Metals https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/glider-containing-a-water-mill-in-neighboring-metals-1915
Glider Containing a Water Mill in Neighboring Metals
November 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Color from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/18744
Gift of Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc.
November 11, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174581
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November 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Genre Allegory (George Washington) https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/genre-allegory-george-washington-1943
Genre Allegory (George Washington)
November 10, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174589
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November 10, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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Wedge of Chastity http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-wedge-of-chastity-t07281
Purchased with assistance from the National Lottery through the Heritage Lottery Fund 1997
November 10, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Portrait of Jacques Villon https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/portrait-of-jacques-villon
Portrait of Jacques Villon
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174593
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November 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Parva Domus, Magna Quies https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/parva-domus-magna-quies-1902
Parva Domus, Magna Quies
November 9, 2025 at 11:58 AM