Duchamp

American  

[dy-shahn] / düˈʃɑ̃ /

noun

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

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Duchamp British  

/ dyʃɑ̃ /

noun

1. 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

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

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

They make clear why Duchamp, a master chess player, retreated from the challenges of modern painting into the safer, cooler terrain—the anti-art gamesmanship—of the Readymade.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Midway through “Marcel Duchamp”—the Museum of Modern Art’s sweeping, chronological survey of the artist it calls “one of the most important figures in modern culture”—you first encounter what Duchamp labelled as his “Readymades.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 30, 2026

Next to the calendar there is a postcard of a Duchamp painting he has always loved, of a chocolate grinder that reminds him of a set of drums, suspended against a gray background.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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