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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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1947 original engraving by Marcel Duchamp - Coffee Mill
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in PARIS, FR
This rare 1947 original engraving, Coffee Mill, by Marcel Duchamp is a profound example of his conceptual approach to mechanical imagery and Dada aesthetics. Signed by the artist and...
Category
1940s Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Engraving
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
Marcel Duchamp - Rrose Sélavy in Wilson-Lincoln System Lenticular print Signed/N
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in New York, NY
Marcel Duchamp and by Takiguchi
Rrose Sélavy (Marcel Duchamp) in Wilson-Lincoln System (Schwarz, 344), 1967
Lenticular print on thin white board. Hand signed by Marcel Duchamp. Date,...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints
Materials
Plastic, Mixed Media, Board, Pencil, Lenticular
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. The exhibition was called "Hommage à Caissa." Duchamp invited 36 artists to contribute. It was in this show , held at the gallery at 978 Madison Ave, as of 1962 the Daniel Cordier & Arne Ekstrom Gallery, where Dalí revealed his chess set.
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
Marcel Duchamp, Monte Carlo Bond, from XXe siecle, 1939
By Marcel Duchamp
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968), titled Bond de Monte-Carlo (Monte Carlo Bond), from the album XXe siecle, Chroniques du jour, 13 rue Valette (5e), Directeur ...
Category
1930s Dada Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
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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


