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1887
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Born: in Blainville, France
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1904
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Moved to Paris, France
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1904 - 1905
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Studied painting at the Académie Julian, Paris, France
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1912
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Created 'Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2' (Philadelphia Museum of Art), causing an uproar at New York City's famous Armory Show in 1913
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1915
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Moved to New York, NY
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1913 - 1917
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Established kinetic art ('Bicycle Wheel', 1913) and ready-made art ('Fountain', 1917)
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1920
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Founded the Société Anonyme with Katherine Dreier and Man Ray in New York, NY
Invented Rrose Sélavy, his feminine alter ego, in New York, NY
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1926
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Moved back to Paris, France
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1946
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Began Etant donnés: 1. la chute d’eau 2. le gaz d’éclairage, a major assemblage on which he worked secretly for the next 20 years
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1955
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Became a United States citizen
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1968
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Died: in Paris, France
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2008 - 2009 |
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"Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture", National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
"Duchamp Manray Picabia", Tate Modern, London, UK
"Duchamp: una obra que no es una obra “de arte”, Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina (solo) |
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2008 |
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"Duchamp, Man Ray, Picabia - The Moment Art Changed Forever", Tate Modern, London, UK |
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2006 |
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"Marcel Duchamp", Galerie Michel Vidal, Paris, France (solo) |
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1966 |
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"The Almost Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp", Tate Gallery, London, UK (solo) |
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1963 |
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"By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy", Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA (solo) |
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1954 |
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"Arensberg collection", Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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1938 |
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"Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme", Paris, France |
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1937 |
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Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo) |
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1927 |
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"International Exhibition of Modern Art", Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
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1917 |
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Society for Independent Artists, New York, NY |
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1913 |
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Armory Show, New York, NY |
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1912 |
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Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France. |
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1909 |
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Salon des Indépendants, Paris, France
Salon d’Automne, Paris, France |
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2002 |
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Goldfarb Marquis, Alice. Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare. Boston, MA: MFA Publications, 2002 |
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1999 |
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Marcel Duchamp: The Art of Making Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction by Francis M. Naumann, Marcel Duchamp. Harry N Abrams. |
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1997 |
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Arturo Schwarz, The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, 2 volumes, revised edition, New York |
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1997 |
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Calvin Tomkins, Duchamp: A Biography, London |
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1995 |
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Jerrold Seigel, The Private Worlds of Marcel Duchamp: Desire, Liberation and the Self in Modern Culture, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London |
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1959 |
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Robert Lebel sur Marcel Duchamp. Trianon Press. |
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