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Copyright estate of the artist | | | Duchamp, Marcel (1887 - 1968) France
Le Porte Bouteilles / Bottle Dryer, 1914-64
Galvanized iron; 59 x 37 cm Dada
UID 102-178
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Biography
The art and ideas of this French painter, sculptor and writer, who gained American citizenship in 1955, perhaps more than any other 20th century artist, exemplify the range of possibilities inherent in the process of producing art. Duchamp refused to accept the models and practices of an established system of art, conventions that were considered essential to achieve fame and fortune. He refused to repeat himself in order to develop a personal style and likewise refused to exhibit on a regular basis. He began painting at 15, having classes in 1904 and 1905 at the Académie Julian. His works were presented publicly for the first time in 1909 at the Salon des Indépendants and the Salon d' Automne in Paris as well as at the Société Normande de Peinture Modern in Rouen. Around 1912, Duchamp painted the work that would bring him a name and an international reputation and with which he would always be linked, Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2. During the spring of this year, he continued to play with the imagery of Cubist forms in a series of drawings and paintings which reconciled human forms with mechanical images. In 1913, he gave up the traditional tools and techniques of painting driven by his desire to elevate art and the artistic process beyond the merely visual or retinal. Two years later, he began the construction of his most complex work The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even, also known as Large Glass. In 1918, Duchamp left for Buenos Aires, to return to Paris the following year where he joined Francis Picabia for six months and where he met many of the Dada group. Despite having many friends actively participating in Dadaism and Surrealism, Duchamp's work always had few stylistic affinities with these groups. In challenging the traditional concepts of art with his anti-art, he anticipated numerous later developments and is seen as one of the most important vanguardists and a central figure in 20th century art.
Exhibitions
O Surrealismo Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil (CCBB), Brazil 20-08-2001 ~ 28-10-2001
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira, Portugal 12-07-2003 ~ 14-09-2003
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 18-10-2003 ~ 22-02-2004
Pomar - Autobiography Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 08-05-2004 ~ 07-11-2004
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999 Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 27-01-2000 ~ 27-08-2000
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Gunma) The Museum of Modern Art (Gunma), Japan 19-02-2005 ~ 27-03-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Hiroshima) Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan 29-05-2005 ~ 10-07-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Tokyo) The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Japan 06-11-2004 ~ 26-12-2004
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Kochi) The Museum of Art (Kochi), Japan 03-04-2005 ~ 22-05-2005
Los ismos de Ramón Gómez de la Serna y un apéndice circense Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Spain 05-06-2002 ~ 25-08-2002
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Osaka) Daimaru Museum, (Umeda, Osaka), Japan 19-01-2005 ~ 06-02-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Nagoya) Nagoya City Art Museum, Japan 10-09-2005 ~ 30-10-2005
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo) Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art (Sapporo), Japan 26-07-2005 ~ 28-08-2005
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, Sintra Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 04-07-2001 ~ 30-06-2001
Colecção Berardo - Arte Pop & Ca. Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 19-04-2002 ~ 15-09-2002
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo) Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Spain 29-06-2006 ~ 26-11-2006
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism - The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 26-11-2005 ~ 18-06-2006
Berardo Museum Opening Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 25-06-2007 ~ 24-08-2008
A Colecção Berardo a partir do Atelier Brancusi Galeria Jornal de Notícias, Portugal 26-01-2007 ~ 24-03-2007
Arriscar o Real Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 08-06-2009 ~ 30-09-2009
Sous la Dictée de L’image Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 01-03-2010 ~ 26-05-2010
Bibliography
Here and Now: On Minimal Art in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972990300X
Colecção Berardo Collection 1917-1999, 2000 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 972817652X
Colecção Berardo, Novas Aquisições, 2000 Published by Arte Ibérica
Fernando Lemos and Surrealism , 2005 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729903026
Los ismos de Ramón Gómez de la Serna y un apéndice circense, 2002 Published by Museu Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
M.A.J.Y. - M.A.G.I.E., 1988
MiragensPerversas, 2006 Published by Bacalhôa Vinhos de Portugal ISBN no
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2001 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729742847
O Surrealismo na Colecção Berardo - Estranho Desenho, 2003 Published by Palácio da Galeria, Câmara Municipal de Tavira ISBN 9728705050
Part Object Part Sculpture, 2005 Published by The Pennsylvania State University Press ISBN 0271028556
Pomar - Autobiography, 2004 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9723709066
Pop Art & Co. - The Berardo Collection - Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 2004 Published by TBS Television, INC.
Respirateur, 1955 Published by Staatliches Museum
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo), 2006 Published by Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza ISBN 8495892529
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