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THBMarcel Duchamp (1887-1968) French, Framed Etching For Du Cubisme
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522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
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LiveJan 19, 2025
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Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) French, Framed Etching For Du Cubisme. Du Cubisme (translated as On Cubism) is a book written in 1912 by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger. It was the first major text on Cubism, illustrated with black and white photographs of works by Paul Cézanne, Gleizes, Metzinger, Fernand Léger, Juan Gris, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque, André Derain, and Marie Laurencin. Signature in print bottom right. Label with information on the back.
Overall Size: 11 x 14 1/2 in.
Sight Size: 3 x 7 in.
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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp was born in 1887 in Normandy, France. His siblings all became successful artists: Jacques a painter and printmaker, Raymond a sculptor, and Suzanne a painter. While attending Lycée Pierre-Corneille in Rouen he won two mathematics prizes and two prizes for drawing. His academic art lessons came from a teacher who attempted to “protect” his students from Impressionism, but his watercolor portraits and landscapes quickly aligned with Post-Impressionist styles. He studied art at the Académie Julian for a year, during which he drew and sold cartoons which reflected his ribald humor in verbal and visual puns. In 1905 he began his compulsory military service with the 39th Infantry Regiment, working for a printer in Rouen where he learned typography and the printing processes. Jacques, who was studying at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, got Duchamp’s work exhibited in the 1908 Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Indépendants. Fauves and proto-Cubism began to influence his paintings, and he became a regular at a discussion group hosted by his brother for artists, poets, and writers which came to be known as the Puteaux Section d’Or. During this period Duchamp’s fascination with transition, change, movement, and distance became manifest, as well as an interest in more mechanical, “machinist” figural depictions. He exhibited a few more times with the Cubists in Spain and America, and his unique “Nude Descending a Staircase” was at the center of much controversy. His broad interests led him to put together an exhibition of aviation technology and sculpted bird forms influenced by them, but he withdrew completely from painting circles to work as a librarian in the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève. He emigrated to the United States in 1915 after World War I began, and though he spoke little English his unconventional style had already made him a celebrity. He joined an artist colony in Ridgefield, New Jersey, where Louise and Walter Arensberg became his primary patrons and closest friends for the rest of his life, providing him a studio and the ability to work on whatever he wanted at his own leisure. Duchamp created the Société Anonyme in 1920 along with Katherine Dreier and Man Ray, which led to his involvement in art dealing and collecting. His female alter ego, “Rrose Sélavy,” emerged in 1921 in a series of photographs by Ray, and he frequently used the name to sign later creations. Duchamp became a key figure in the New York Dada movement, but when he returned to Paris in 1923 he was not involved with the European Dadaists. His magnum opus, “The Large Glass,” was a mixed media proto-Futurist piece encapsulating nearly all of his influences, and was his last major work until the late 1960s. From 1918 onward he became more and more obsessed with the game of chess, carving his own pieces and crafting an enigmatic endgame problem in 1943 which Grandmasters have grappled with ever since. Duchamp’s influence on the art world remained behind the scenes until the late 1950s, when he was “discovered” by young artists eager to escape the dominance of Abstract Expressionism. He was a co-founder of the international literary group Oulipo in 1960, and in 1963 the Pasadena Art Museum mounted his first retrospective exhibition, with numerous others at the Tate Gallery, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art since then. Duchamp died at his home in France in 1968, and many critics consider him to be one of the most important conceptual artists of the 20th Century, with a massive influence on most of the subsequent Western art that developed in the post-World War I world.
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