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October 28, 2026 — 1 min read

“Multiple Portrait of Marcel Duchamp”, 1917, Broadway Photo Shop, New York (Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris) © Association Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2026

Duchamp's practice was one of continuous self-reinvention, impossible to categorize under any label.

In 1912, the artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) began to question his occupation. He decided at the age of twenty-five to abandon the craft of oil painting. He also strove to make himself aloof from the art world to work as he pleased. Duchamp went on to become one of the most innovative and original figures in the history of modern art. Across six decades, he was associated with Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism.

The first major U.S.…