Marcel Duchamp

French | 1887 - 1968

Marcel Duchamp was a French Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1887. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Moderna Museet, Stockholm have featured Marcel Duchamp's work in the past.Marcel Duchamp's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 7 USD to 11,360,067 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 11,360,067 USD for Belle haleine - Eau de voilette, sold at Christie's Paris in 2009. In the past 12 months, his sculptures have averaged 771,727 USD, while his works on paper have sold for an average of 68,674 USD.Marcel Duchamp has been featured in articles for ARTFORUM, ARTnews and Wallpaper . The most recent article is Call It Orphism written for Two Coats of Paint in February 2025. The artist died in 1968.

Artist's alternative names: Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp

Featured for Sale

[DUCHAMP Marcel]. MARCEL DUCHAMP or RROSE SELAVY. Pasadena Art Museum ,1963

By Marcel Duchamp

Binoche & Giquello

[DUCHAMP Marcel]. LE DESSIN DANS L'ART MAGIQUE. Galerie Rive Droite ,1958

By Marcel Duchamp

Binoche & Giquello

[DUCHAMP Marcel]. REHABILITATION OF THE OBJECT. POSTER. Paris

By Marcel Duchamp

Binoche & Giquello

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Notable Lots

Marcel Duchamp. Propos et souvenirs. Milan : Arturo Schwarz, . Avec un Ready-made rectifié de Marcel Duchamp. 1964

By Marcel Duchamp

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De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-Valise), Series A

By Marcel Duchamp

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De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise), Series A

By Marcel Duchamp

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JACQUES VILLON

By Marcel Duchamp

Leipzig Auction House

[DUCHAMP Marcel]. MARCEL AND TEENY DUCHAMP, EMILE GILIOLI. ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH. Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, June - Marcel Duchamp

[DUCHAMP Marcel]. MARCEL AND TEENY DUCHAMP, EMILE GILIOLI. ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH. Paris, Galerie Louis Carré, June ,22

By Marcel Duchamp

Binoche & Giquello

[DUCHAMP Marcel]. REVUE. VIEW. The Modern magazine. New York - Marcel Duchamp

[DUCHAMP Marcel]. REVUE. VIEW. The Modern magazine. New York ,1945

By Marcel Duchamp

Binoche & Giquello

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Recent Auction Results

Coffee mill ,1947

By Marcel Duchamp

Yann le Mouel

"Avec grand plaisir"

By Marcel Duchamp

Plückbaum Auction House

EXHIBITION • MAN RAY / JULIEN LEVY GALLERY. Folded exhibition brochure. 1945. - Marcel Duchamp

EXHIBITION • MAN RAY / JULIEN LEVY GALLERY. Folded exhibition brochure. 1945. ,1945

By Marcel Duchamp

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Current Exhibitions

Transform The World, Change Life: A Surrealist Library

Galerie Jocelyn Wolff, Paris (Belleville)

20e | Paris | France

Nov 03,2024 - Mar 08,2025

Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Upper East Side | New York | USA

Nov 08,2024 - Mar 09,2025

Self-Portraits

Skarstedt, Paris

8e | Paris | France

Feb 13,2025 - Mar 29,2025

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Articles

Call It Orphism

Two Coats of Paint 06/02/2025

At a Four Walls event in Brooklyn in the early 1990s, Erik Oppenheim, at that time a young artist, stood up and said, “I’m starting an art movement.

“The Atomic Age: Artists Put to the Test of History”

ARTFORUM 02/02/2025

Barnett Newman’s 1946 painting Pagan Void stares you down at the start of “L’Âge atomique: Les artistes à l’épreuve de l’histoire” (The Atomic Age: Artists Put to the Test of History), a visual tour of modernity as seen through the lens of nuclear technology.

“Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930”

ARTFORUM 01/02/2025

“THE REIGN OF ORPHEUS IS BEGINNING,” declared the poet-critic Guillaume Apollinaire in his review of the 1913 Salon des Indépendants in Paris.

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Coverage

“ ..Especially with an artist like Duchamp, who since his first readymades questioned the concept of the “original” in art, these minimized replicas of his works are more than just replicas and realize his... ”
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Museum Kunst Palast, Duesseldorf

“ ..What’s a Readymade? Duchamp’s readymades are mass-produced objects that the artist chose, signed, and sometimes inscribed with mysterious phrases... ”
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Philadelphia Museum of Art

“ ..Duchamp remains the ultimate avant-gardist whose subversive attitude continues to impact contemporary art practices... ”
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Gagosian Gallery, New York (980 Madison Avenue)

“ ..By memorializing his own oeuvre via recreation and reproduction, Duchamp maintained his dissident vision of artistic integrity, epitomized by Boîte-en-valise (1935–41), a suitcase containing a “portable... ”
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Gagosian Gallery, New York (980 Madison Avenue)

“ ..For Duchamp, the readymade meant the transition from what he called “retinal art” to an intellectual approach of his practice... ”
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, Marais