Bicycle Wheel Metal, Rubber, and Wood Sculpture 2002 9 in

Year2002

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Condition Excellent - Brand new in box 

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Provenance / HistoryPhiladelphia Museum of Art 

Story / Additional InfoThe Bicycle Wheel Sculpture replica (9") was issued in limited quantity by the Philadelphia Museum of Art in 2002 for the 40th anniversary of the blockbuster 1973 Duchamp retrospective exhibition that was co-organized by the late Anne D'Harnecourt and Kynaston McShine. This miniature Bicycle Wheel consists of a cream-colored kitchen stool with a large bicycle wheel affixed on top of it. Duchamp pioneered the art movement of "Readymades" by taking everyday objects and altering them or combining them to create new meaning through sculpture Wheel and Painted Wood. 

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Marcel Duchamp - France

Art Brokerage: Marcel Duchamp French Artist: B. 1887-1968. Marcel Duchamp, French Dada artist, whose small but controversial output exerted a strong influence on the development of 20th-century avant-garde art. Born on July 28, 1887, in Blainville, brother of the artist Raymond Duchamp-Villon and half brother of the painter Jacques Villon, Duchamp began to paint in 1908. After producing several canvases in the current mode of Fauvism, he turned toward experimentation and the avant-garde, producing his most famous work, Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (Philadelphia Museum of Art) in 1912; portraying continuous movement through a chain of overlapping cubistic figures, the painting caused a furor at New York City's famous Armory Show in 1913. He painted very little after 1915, although he continued until 1923 to work on his masterpiece, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even (1923, Philadelphia Museum of Art), an abstract work, also known as The Large Glass, composed in oil and wire on glass, that was enthusiastically received by the surrealists. Listings wanted by Art Brokerage.