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Marcel Duchamp Biography
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1887 |
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Born July 28, in Blainville, France
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1904 - 1905 |
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Studied painting at the Académie Julian, Paris, France
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1909 |
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Exhibited for the first time at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d’Automne in Paris
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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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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
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1920 |
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Invented Rrose Sélavy, his feminine alter ego, in New York
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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 on October 1, 1968
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Central figure in the development of surrealism, Dada, and pop art
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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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. (First one man exhibition)
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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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| Literature |
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2002
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Marcel Duchamp: The Bachelor Stripped Bare: A Biography by Alice Goldfarb Marquis. MFA Publications.
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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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| Links to further information |
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