Marcel Duchamp

One of the most celebrated artists of all time, Marcel Duchamp opened up new ways of seeing and thinking about art.

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From San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) , Marcel Duchamp, Fountain (1917/1964), Glazed ceramic with black paint, 15 × 19 1/4 × 24 5/8 in

Marcel Duchamp

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Hans Richter was the most important film maker to come out of the German Dada movement before it moved to France and evolved into Surrealism. The Dada movement started during World War One in Zurich, Switzerland amongst writers and artists, mostly Germans and a few Rumanians, hiding out from the war. The ideology of Dada was a rejection of any and all bourgeois values that they associated with a society that seemed to be completely falling apart in the carnage of the first mass industrial…

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View La Mariée (G./P. E672) (1934) After Duchamp Marcel; Aquatint in colors on Arches paper; 19 3/4 x 12 1/2in; Signed; Edition. Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) / R. Mutt, Rrose Sélavy. "I thought to discourage aesthetics... I threw the bottlerack and the urinal in their faces and now they admire them for their aesthetic beauty."