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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174581

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To Be Looked at (from the Other Side of the Glass) with One Eye, Close to, for Almost an Hour http://www.moma.org/collection/works/78993

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Marcel Duchamp began his career as a painter of conventional portraits and nudes. By 1912, however, he set out to prove the end of “retinal art”—pictures created to delight the eye—in order to “put painting once again at the service of the mind.” His answer was the “readymade,” an ordinary object transformed into a work of art by virtue of the artist selecting it. Taken out of context, repositioned, and signed by the artist, the readymade upended tradition and artistic convention by revolutionizing the way we think about what an artwork is, how it is produced, and the ways in which it is exhibited.
In 1914 Duchamp purchased this mass-produced bottle rack at a department store. He felt free to acquire new versions for exhibitions and display after his sister accidentally discarded the “original.” He selected the present version for the 1959 exhibition Art and the Found Object in New York. Artist Robert Rauschenberg acquired Bottle Rack and asked Duchamp to sign it. He obliged, writing in French, “Impossible for me to recall the original phrase M.D. / Marcel Duchamp /1960.”

Through prior gifts of Mary and Leigh Block, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Culberg, and Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf; Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection Fund; through prior gift of Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection;  Sheila Anne Morgenstern in memory of Dorothy O. Morgenstern and William V. Morgenstern; through prior bequests of Joseph Winterbotham and Mima de Manziarly Porter; Ada Turnbull Hertle and Modern Discretionary funds

Marcel Duchamp began his career as a painter of conventional portraits and nudes. By 1912, however, he set out to prove the end of “retinal art”—pictures created to delight the eye—in order to “put painting once again at the service of the mind.” His answer was the “readymade,” an ordinary object transformed into a work of art by virtue of the artist selecting it. Taken out of context, repositioned, and signed by the artist, the readymade upended tradition and artistic convention by revolutionizing the way we think about what an artwork is, how it is produced, and the ways in which it is exhibited. In 1914 Duchamp purchased this mass-produced bottle rack at a department store. He felt free to acquire new versions for exhibitions and display after his sister accidentally discarded the “original.” He selected the present version for the 1959 exhibition Art and the Found Object in New York. Artist Robert Rauschenberg acquired Bottle Rack and asked Duchamp to sign it. He obliged, writing in French, “Impossible for me to recall the original phrase M.D. / Marcel Duchamp /1960.” Through prior gifts of Mary and Leigh Block, Mr. and Mrs. Maurice E. Culberg, and Mr. and Mrs. James W. Alsdorf; Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection Fund; through prior gift of Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection; Sheila Anne Morgenstern in memory of Dorothy O. Morgenstern and William V. Morgenstern; through prior bequests of Joseph Winterbotham and Mima de Manziarly Porter; Ada Turnbull Hertle and Modern Discretionary funds

Bottle Rack (Porte-Bouteilles) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/238749/

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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174577

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Gift of Frank B. Hubachek

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The Artist's Grandmother Sewing (recto); Suzanne Duchamp, the Artist's Sister (verso) https://www.artic.edu/artworks/113815/

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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174567

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Portrait of Yvonne Duchamp

Portrait of Yvonne Duchamp

Portrait of Yvonne Duchamp www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/portra...

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Bottlerack

Bottlerack

Bottlerack www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/bottle...

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Purchased 1999

Purchased 1999

3 stoppages étalon (3 Standard Stoppages) www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/duchamp-3-s...

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Female Fig Leaf - Cover design for "Le Surréalisme"

Female Fig Leaf - Cover design for "Le Surréalisme"

Female Fig Leaf - Cover design for "Le Surréalisme" www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/female...

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Through prior gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman

Through prior gift of Mrs. Gilbert W. Chapman

Pocket Chess Set https://www.artic.edu/artworks/210442/

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Appearance and Apparition from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/18746

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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174575

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Nine malice moulds

Nine malice moulds

Nine malice moulds www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/nine-m...

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Apolinere Enamelled

Apolinere Enamelled

Apolinere Enamelled www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/apolin...

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Two Nudes

Two Nudes

Two Nudes www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/two-nu...

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After love

After love

After love www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/after-...

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Untitled from The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box) (La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même [Boîte verte]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/174588

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Bride

Bride

Bride https://www.wikiart.org/en/marcel-duchamp/bride-1912

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Gift of Cordier & Ekstrom, Inc.

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Further References to the Glass from À l'Infinitif (La Boîte Blanche) (In the Infinitive [The White Box]) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/18745

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