Marcel Duchamp

For Sale on 1stDibs - Marcel Duchamp with his Bicycle Wheel, 1963 by Julian Wasser, Silver Gelatin Print by Julian Wasser. Offered by Hilton Contemporary.

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

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp's enigmatic assemblage Étant donnés: 1. La chute d'eau, 2. Le gaz d'éclairage (Given: 1. The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas) has been described by the artist Jasper Johns as "the strangest work of art in any museum." Permanently installed at the Museum since 1969, this three-dimensional environmental tableau offers an unforgettable and untranslatable experience to those who peer through the two small holes in the solid wooden door.

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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Image: Marcel Duchamp, 1917, Edward Steichen, American, 1879 - 1973, Platinum print. The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950. Happy Birthday to Edward Steichen, who was born on this day in...

Was Marcel Duchamp’s game-changing art, from oils to signed urinals, really the product of a vast and rigorous intellect? Mark Hudson is not so sure.

Dada's mockery, wit, and absurdity powerfully criticized European culture and opened new ways to make art. Revolutionary ideas by Duchamp, Ray, Hoch, Tzara+

One of the most prolific photographers working in the 20th century (and certainly one of the most famous fashion magazine photographers of his era), Irving Penn shot a series of minimalist studio portraits back in the 1940s and ’50s that were…