From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy

1935–40, 1963–66 (Series F)
(French, 1887–1968)
Overall: 41.5 x 38.5 x 9.9 cm (16 5/16 x 15 3/16 x 3 7/8 in.)
© Association Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2021
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In 1919, Duchamp created his iconic work L.H.O.O.Q. by drawing a goatee over a printed reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa.

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A leader of the Dada movement that emerged in Europe and America during World War I, Marcel Duchamp assaulted the traditional concept of art as a unique, physical object distinguished by superior handwork or craftsmanship. In its place he proposed that the central, animating principle of art should be the idea. His reputation as the century's most controversial artist began with the public's riotous reaction to his Nude Descending a Staircase at the 1913 Armory Show. That same year he created his first "ready-made" by attaching a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool, and in 1917 he exhibited a urinal under the title Fountain. Often adding inscriptions with humorous puns and ironic double meanings to his works, Duchamp raised philosophical speculation to a higher level of importance than the physical object. Shocked by his unconventional tactics, critics labeled his works "anti-art."
From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy

From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy

1935–40, 1963–66 (Series F)

Marcel Duchamp

(French, 1887–1968)
France, 20th century

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