Marcel Duchamp

Biography

Selected exhibitions

2022

'I Can Live Forever', Gallery Sofie Van de Velde, New South, Antwerpen, BE
'Marcel Duchamp: L.H.O.O.Q.', Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, AT

2021

'Please Touch: Marcel Duchamp and the Fetish', cur. Paul B. Franklin, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK; Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, FR

2020

'Hanging for 20 years of the Prix Marcel Duchamp 2020', Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
'Marcel Duchamp: The Barbara and Aaron Levine Collection', Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
'Marcel Duchamp - baptism, Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp', The Forestay Museum of Art, Cully, CH
'DUCHAMP THREADS THE NEEDLE', David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
'Marcel Duchamp und der Jura', Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu, Porrentruy, CH

2019

'MARCEL DUCHAMP: Das Unmögliche sehen', Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart; Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin, DE

2018

'Marcel Duchamp. 100 Fragen. 100 Antworten', Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE
'The Essential Duchamp,' Tokyo National Museum, Tokyo, JP; National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, SK; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, AU

2017

'Curatorial Studies 12: The 100th Anniversary of Duchamp's Fountain', National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, JP

2016

'Porte-Bouteilles', Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, FR
'MARCEL DUCHAMP. Dada e Neo-Dada', Museo Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Ascona, CH
'The Slope of a Line – 100 Jahre Readymade', Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, DE

2015

'The Duchamp Effect', Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA

2014

'Marcel Duchamp', MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, GR
'What Marcel Duchamp Taught Me', The Fine Art Society, London, UK
'Marcel Duchamp – La Peinture Même', Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR

2013

'Rural Readymade', University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge, CN
'Duchamp: Re-Made in Italy', Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, IT
'DUCHAMP and/or/in CHINA', UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, CH
'Surrealism & Duchamp', Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SW
'Marcel Duchamp', Palazzo Grassi, Venice, IT

2012

'Marcel Duchamp in Munich 1912,' Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Kunstbau, Munich, DE
'Marcel Duchamp', Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH, USA
'Duchamp the Messenger', MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA, USA
'Marcel Duchamp: Le mystère de Munich', Architecture Museum of TU, Munich, DE
'Marcel Duchamp – A Game in A Game', Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, DE

2011

'Focus Gallery: Marcel Duchamp', Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
'Lost and Found', Lubeznik Center for the Arts, Michigan City, MI, USA
'Marcel Duchamp', Moderna Museet Malmö, Malmö, SW
'Marcel Duchamp, Belle Haleine: Eau de Voilette', Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, DE

2009

'Marcel Duchamp: Chess Master', Saint Louis University Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO, 'USA
'Marcel Duchamp: Étant donnés', Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
'Frank Hesse. De ou par Marcel Duchamp', Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn, DE
'Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture', National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA

2008

'Marcel Duchamp Redux', Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA, USA
'Marcel Duchamp: Una obra que no es una obra de arte', Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
'Marcel Duchamp: A work is not a work of art', Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo, Brazil

2007

'Marcel, Marcel', Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KT, USA
'Spinning Straw', Masterworks Gallery, Auckland, NZ

2006

'Marcel Duchamp', Museo di Villa Croce, Genoa, IT

2004

'Mirrorical Returns: Marcel Duchamp and the 20th Century Art', National Museum of Art, Osaka; Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, JP

2003

'Marcel Duchamp – Druckgraphik', Sammlung Hummel, Vienna, AT

2002

'Marcel Duchamp', Museum Jean Tinguely, Basel, CH
'Marcel Duchamp', Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, DE

2001

'MARCEL DUCHAMP: ARTIST–HUMORIST–PHILOSOPHER', California State University, University Art Gallery, Long Beach, CA, USA
'9 Objects: A Tribute to Marcel Duchamp', Hollywood Centre, HK
'Leading Lights of the 20th Century. Marcel Duchamp, Seen by Adrián Alemán and José Jiménez', Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, SP

1995

'Marcel Duchamp, Respirateur', Staatliches Museum Schwerin, Schwerin, DE

1986

Marcel Duchamp, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

1985

Marcel Duchamp's Notes, Fine Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, Florida State University, Miami, FL, USA

1994

'Marcel Duchamp. To and From the Large Glass', Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel

1993

'Marcel Duchamp', Palazzo Grassi, Venice, IT

1991

'Marcel Duchamp. Graphics', Bigi Art Space, Kyoto, JP

1988

'Übrigens sterben immer die anderen: Marcel Duchamp', Museum Ludwig, Cologne, DE
'Marcel Duchamp, 'Fountain'', Menil Foundation, Houston, TX, USA
'Marcel Duchamp, la Sposa…e i Readymade', Accademia di Belle Arti di Bretra, Milan, IT

1987

'Marcel Duchamp. Das grafische Werk', Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
'Marcel Duchamp. Readymades. Estampes. Répliques', Genia Schreier University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, IS
'Marcel Duchamp: 19a. Bienal Internacional de São Paulo', São Paulo, BR
'Marcel Duchamp als Zeitmaschine', Museum Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht, NL
'Apropos of Marcel Duchamp 1887/1987', Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA

1984

Duchamp, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona; Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, ES
Marcel Duchamp. Works from the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, USA

1982

Marcel Duchamp. La Pendule de Profile, Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, France

1981

Marcel Duchamp, Seibu Takanawa, Karuizawa; Seibu Bijutsukan, Tokyo, Japan

1977

Marcel Duchamp, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR

1975

The 'Large Glass' and Related Works, Taylor Hall Art Gallery, California State University, Chico, CA, USA

1974

Marcel Duchamp. A Retrospective Exhibition, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

1973

La Delicata Scacchiera. Marcel Duchamp, Palazzo Reale, Naples, Italy

1972

Marcel Duchamp. Drawings and Etchings for the 'Large Glass', Readymades, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1966

The Almost Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp, Tate Gallery, London, UK

1964

Marcel Duchamp, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, DE

1963

Marcel Duchamp. A Retrospective Exhibition, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA

1960

Marcel Duchamp, Bokkonsu, Stockholm, SE
Dokumentation über Marcel Duchamp, Kunstgewerbemuseum, Zürich, CH

1959

Sur Marcel Duchamp, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

1952

Marcel Duchamp, Amici della Francia, Milan, Italy

1937

Exhibition of Paintings by Marcel Duchamp, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA

Selected public collections

France
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris

Israel
Israel Museum, Jerusalem

UK
Tate, London

USA
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Menil Collection, Houston, TX
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Artworks

Couple of Laundress’s Aprons, 1959/1960
Each apron signed Marcel Duchamp on cloth label on verso
Imitated rectified readymade: two potholders (male and female), cloth and fur
Male 20,3 x 17,7 cm, Female 20,5 x 19,8 cm
53,5 x 72 cm with frame
Edition of 20

Bouche-Evier (Sink Stopper)
Multiple of cast bronze, 1964
6.5 × 6.5 × 0.9 cm
(edition of 100)

Rotoreliefs (Optical Disks)
1935, published 1953

One from a series of six offset lithographs
Sheet (diameter): 20 cm
Edition of 1000