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Marcel Duchamp Biography
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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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| Selected Exhibitions |
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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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| Literature |
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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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| Links to further information |
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