Duchamp
[ dy-shahn ]
/ düˈʃɑ̃ /
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noun
Mar·cel [mar-sel], /marˈsɛl/, 1887–1968, French painter, in U.S. after 1915 (brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon).
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Duchamp
/ (French dyʃɑ̃) /
noun
Marcel (marsɛl). 1887–1968, US painter and sculptor, born in France; noted as a leading exponent of Dada. His best-known work is Nude Descending a Staircase (1912)
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