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Marcel Duchamp

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Marcel Duchamp

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Also known as Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp, Rrose Sélavy, R. Mutt, Rose Sélavy, Marcel Duchamp-Villon, Marsel Dushan, Duxiang, Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp

French painter, sculptor, and chess player (1887–1968)

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Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) was a French and American painter, sculptor, actor, and chess player. Born in Blainville-Crevon, he died in Neuilly-sur-Seine. His notable works include *Étant donnés*, *L.H.O.O.Q.*, and *Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2*. He was associated with the Dada, surrealism, and conceptual art movements. Duchamp was a member of the College of 'Pataphysics, Oulipo, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Society of Independent Artists.

He was educated at the Académie Julian, Lycée Pierre-Corneille, and École des chartes. Duchamp was married to Alexina Duchamp and had siblings Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Jacques Villon, and Suzanne Duchamp. He was a partner in business or sport with Gianfranco Baruchello and is said to be the same as Rrose Sélavy.

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Person · Open Library

Born
28 July 1887
Died
2 October 1968
Works
100

Top works

  • Dokumentation über Marcel Duchamp
  • Marsel Dushan
  • Man Ray
  • Marcel Duchamp : drawings, etchings for the Large Glass, ready-mades
  • Conspiratorial laughter

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Film & TV

Blainville-Crevon, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was a French, naturalized 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…

Known for

  • Duchamp, la baronne et le mystère de l'urinoir2024
  • Marcel Duchamp: The Art of the Possible — Self - Artist (archive footage)2020
  • Paris: The Luminous Years2010
  • Marcel Duchamp: Iconoclaste et Inoxydable2009
  • Hi-Fi1999
  • The Secret of Marcel Duchamp — himself1997
  • Europe After the Rain — Self1978
  • Merce by Merce by Paik1978
  • Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma — Self (archive footage)1978
  • Dada1969

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
male
Citizenship
United States
Place of birth
Blainville-Crevon
Place of death
Neuilly-sur-Seine
Sibling
Suzanne Duchamp
Educated at
École des chartes
Languages spoken
French
Native language
French
Notable work
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2
Participant in
5th Chess Olympiad
Field of work
art of sculpture
Genre
figurative art
Movement
conceptual art
Sport
chess
Country for sport
France
Image
Marcel Duchamp 01.jpg
Work location
New York City
Residence
Rouen
Said to be same as
Rrose Sélavy
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partner in business or sport
Gianfranco Baruchello
Commons category
Marcel Duchamp
date of birth
1887-07-28
date of death
1968-10-01
member of
Society of Independent Artists
Commons Creator page
Marcel Duchamp
topic's main category
Category:Marcel Duchamp
Commons gallery
Marcel Duchamp
name in native language
Marcel Duchamp
place of burial
Cimetière monumental de Rouen
sponsor
Walter Conrad Arensberg
birth name
Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp
unmarried partner
Maria Martins
has works in the collection
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
archives at
Philadelphia Museum of Art
described at URL
www.nytimes.com/1968/10/03/archives/marcel-duchamp-is-dead-at-81.html
floruit
1965-01-01
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Works in European collections

1 object attributed to Marcel Duchamp, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana

Die verheiratete Frau

Die verheiratete Frau

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Encyclopedic overview

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp ( UK: /ˈdjuːʃɒ̃/, US: /djuːˈʃɒ̃, djuːˈʃɑːmp/; French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French American artist, chess player, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the United States and in New York City, where he spent the last 25 years of his life.

Duchamp was the first artist to elevate a urinal to the status of an art form. For his talk at the American Federation of the Arts in Houston, "On the Creative Act," for which he labeled himself a 'mere artist,' Duchamp said, "Let us consider two important factors, the two poles of the creation of art: the artist, on the one hand, and on the other the spectator who later becomes the posterity...if we give the attributes of a medium to the artist, we must then deny him the state of consciousness on the esthetic plane about what he is doing or why he is doing it. All his decisions in the artistic execution of the work rest with pure intuition and cannot be translated into a self-analysis, spoken or written, or even thought out."

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