Marcel Duchamp, “À propos de jeune soeur” (1911) oil on canvas, 73 x 60 cm (Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York © The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation / Art ...

The gist of Dadaism was the "gratuitous act," and the most gratuitous Dadaist act of all was Marcel Duchamp's invention of the readymade. One can regard them as experiments in art, or mock works of ...

It could be said that Marcel DuChamp changed modern art as he moved away from what he termed “retinal art”, which pleased only the eye, to his own brand of conceptual art exemplified by his famous ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. When Marcel Duchamp died in 1968, he had long been an American citizen, only one of his works had entered a French ...

From Mondrian's grid paintings and Gustav Klimt's The Kiss to Damien Hirst's spot series and Marcel Duchamp's Fountain. These classic works of 20th century art, recognised the world over, have now ...