Duchamp

American

[dy-shahn] / düˈʃɑ̃ /

noun

Marcel 1887–1968, French painter, in U.S. after 1915 (brother of Raymond Duchamp-Villon and Jacques Villon).

Duchamp British

/ 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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Duchamp showed the painting elsewhere on the Continent, but it made little impression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

An ocean away, Duchamp acted as if he didn’t care.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

Duchamp clambered into a taxi, packed up his canvas and lugged it home.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

“Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2” made Duchamp an American celebrity, as the journalist John Strausbaugh details in “Duchamp Takes New York.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 12, 2026

When the French artist Marcel Duchamp drew a mustache on a copy of the Mona Lisa, he made the most famous parody in art history.

From "The Mona Lisa Vanishes" by Nicholas Day

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