Marcel DuChamp

Birth & Death

• Birth: July 28, 1887 Blainville-Crevon, France
• Death: October 2,1968 Neuilly-sur-Seine, Nanterre, France

3Facts about his Family

• His brother & sister were both painters & one brother was a sculptor.
• 7 Siblings but one die during the infancy & only 4 became great artists;Suzanne DuChamp-Cotati,Raymound DuChamp-Villon,Jacques Villon & Marcel.
• They lived in a house fill with their Grandpa's art work Emile Nicolle.

Facts

• Marcel was an unique & he influence plastic arts in the way people define paintings & sculptures.
• He was very good in mathematics but he decided to be an artist after he got a prize for drawing in 1930.
• He was influences by 4 people;Max Stirner,Henri Poincare,Joseph Cornell, & Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres.

Facts

• He got marry twice;Lydie Sarazin-Levassor (1927-1928) & Alexina Sattler (1954-1968)
• Marcel never had children.

Movement

• Cubism
• Dadaism
• Conceptual Art

Nude Descending a staircase No.2

the bride stripped bare by her bachelors (1923)

Fountain (1917)

Bicycle Wheel

Etant Donnes(1966)