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What was Marcel Duchamp's famous sculpture of Dadaism?
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Marcel Duchamp's famous sculpture of Dadaism is widely considered to be Fountain. Its name was a playful subversion that shocked viewers when it was exhibited in 1917. The reason for the surprise? Duchamp's so-called “fountain” was actually a urinal. Although the original piece was either lost or destroyed, several museums have authorized reproductions of the work in their collections. Among them are the Philadelphia Museum of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, California; the Tate Modern in London, UK, and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. Explore an assortment of Marcel Duchamp art on 1stDibs.
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International DADA Exhibition 1916-1923.
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
DUCHAMP, Marcel. International DADA Exhibition 1916-1923. Large Poster printed in black and orange, designed by Duchamp. Single sheet, 965 x 635 mm, (38" x 25"). New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1953. Folded.
A fine copy of this extremely rare Duchamp poster...
Category
1950s Dada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper
Coeurs Volants (Fluttering Hearts) Schwartz 446C, historic hand signed edition
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
Marcel Duchamp
Coeurs Volants (Fluttering Hearts) (Schwartz 446C), 1961
Silkscreen in colors
Hand signed in ball-point pen by Marcel Duchamp and annotated with the dateline "Stockhol...
Category
1960s Dada Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen, Pencil
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) - King and Queen - Etching on Japan paper - 1968
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in Varese, IT
etching on Japan paper , Edited in 1968,
first state (of two)
Limited edition of 30 copies for each state ,
numbered 8/30 in lower left
Hand signed in pencil by artist in the lower r...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Etching
1967 Exhibition original poster by Marcel Duchamp - Ready mades - Dada -
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in PARIS, FR
Marcel Duchamp was one of the pioneers of Dada, a movement that challenged preconceived notions of what art should be and how it should be made. In the years leading up to World War I, Duchamp enjoyed success as a painter in Paris. But he soon abandoned painting almost entirely, explaining, "I was interested in ideas, not just visual products."
Seeking an alternative to representing objects in paint, Duchamp began to present objects as art...
Category
1960s Dada Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Hommage a Caissa (for the Marcel Duchamp Fund of the American Chess Foundation)
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
Marcel Duchamp
Hommage a Caissa (for the Marcel Duchamp Fund of the American Chess Foundation), 1966
Silkscreen Poster with Gold Matting
Frame included
Very scarce 1960s collectors item - rarely seen!
Measurements:
Framed:
26.25 x 21.25 x 0.5 inch
Print:
26 x 21 inches
Unsigned
Accompanied by Certificate of Guarantee issued by Alpha 137 Gallery
This extremely rare and historic invitation/exhibition poster was designed by Duchamp on the occasion of a group exhibition at New York's Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery for the Marcel Duchamp Fund of the Americas Chess Foundation in 1966. Duchamp used the RSVP cards he sent to various artists as a design for this invitation. Many of these RSVP cards had the artist's autographs, and a few, like the one from Alexander Calder, included personal notes to Duchamp. Some of the more famous of the 36 artists featured in print who participated by donating works to this fundraiser include: Jasper Johns, Karl Gerstner, David Hare, Salvador Dali, Enrico Donati, Roberto Matta, Isamu Noguchi, Alexander Calder, Dorothea Tanning, Jean Tinguely, Niki De St. Phalle, George Segal, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Meret Oppenheim, Alfonso Ossorio, Robert Motherwell, Claes Oldenburg, Man Ray, Joan Miro, Rene Magritte, Richard Lindner, Roy Lichtenstein, Arman, Enrico Baj, Hans Bellmer, Victor Brauner, Alexander Liberman, William Copley, Cleve Gray and several others. However -- did you notice one name was noticeably absent? Andy Warhol! How could that be? Well, it turns out
Andy Warhol has actually expected to be invited to exhibit but for some reason was overlooked. He did, however, attend the opening and filmed Duchamp in one of his famous "Screen Tests...
Category
1960s Dada Abstract Prints
Materials
Screen
Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) in Wilson-Lincoln System (Schwarz 344) Signed 8/60
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
Marcel Duchamp
Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) in Wilson-Lincoln System (Schwarz, 344), 1967
Lenticular print on thin white board. Hand signed by Marcel Duchamp. Date, title and number on label verso.
12 7/10 × 10 1/10 inches
Edition 8/60
Hand-signed by artist, Hand signed by Marcel Duchamp in blue ink recto. Sticker label verso bears printed title, edition number, year and description.
Printed by Shuzo Takiguchi, published in Tokyo.
Catalogue Raisonne Reference: "The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp" by Arturo Schwarz, Plate 344
Provenance: This was part of the Deluxe Artist portfolio, "To and From Rrose Sélavy"; this will be the first time the work has been separated from the portfolio
Please refer to the attached video to see this 3-D piece in person
Eager to share Marcel Duchamp with Japanese audiences, Shuzo Takiguchi - a Japanese-born poet, critic, and artist with ties to Surrealist circles, assembled an international portfolio of graphic works by various artists with strong ties to Duchamp, to accompany the deluxe version of his monograph, "To and From Rrose Sélavy (aka Marcel Duchamp)." The present work - Takiguchi's own piece, a lenticular double portrait - combines Rrose Sélavy's signature with Man Ray's 1930 profile of Duchamp. Its subject, Marcel Duchamp, then signed this work in pencil. Its title, "Rrose Sélavy in the Wilson-Lincoln System", refers to Duchamp's Green Box note describing a two-way, changeable portrait of presidents Abraham Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson. Rrose Selavy is, famously, Marcel Duchamp's pseudonym and alter ego. Duchamp died before Takiguchi's book was completed, so this print is one of the very last graphic works that has been hand signed by Marcel Duchamp. It was published in Japan, and is a very elusive work stateside. Another edition of this work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art. The National Portrait Gallery and other major institutional collections. This work is fully referenced in the catalogue raisonne "The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp" by Arturo Schwarz, Plate 344, describing the work as follows: "Rrose Selavy in the Wilson Lincoln System (a double image plastic plate with, on the background, Man Ray's portrait of Duchamp, and superimposed,, Rrose Selavy's autograph signature repeated four times, signed lower right in blue ink: Marcel Duchamp, an original embossed print...."
More about Marcel Duchamp:
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was born July 28, 1887, near Blainville, France. In 1904, he joined his artist brothers, Jacques Villon and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, in Paris, where he studied painting at the Académie Julian until 1905. Duchamp’s early works were Post-Impressionist in style. He exhibited for the first time in 1909 at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne in Paris. His paintings of 1911 were directly related to Cubism but emphasized successive images of a single body in motion. In 1912, he painted the definitive version of Nude Descending a Staircase; this was shown at the Salon de la Section d’Or of that same year and subsequently created great controversy at the Armory Show in New York in 1913.
Duchamp’s radical and iconoclastic ideas predated the founding of the Dada movement in Zurich in 1916. By 1913, he had abandoned...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Plastic, Mixed Media, Board, Pencil, Lenticular