24 SEPTEMBER 2014 - 5 JANUARY 2015
CENTRE POMPIDOU
PARIS, FRANCE

With approximately 100 works brought together for the first time, the Centre Pompidou presents a surprising monograph exhibition on the painted work of Marcel Duchamp—generally perceived as the artist who killed painting.

At the heart of the exhibition, a new look at the paintings and drawings that led Duchamp to create his masterpiece, known as Le Grand Verre, La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même (The Bride Stripped Bare by her Suitors, Even [The Large Glass]), which was begun in 1910 and declared unfinished by the artist in 1923.

Revealing Duchamp’s pictorial studies, his Fauve period, the influence of Symbolism, his Cubist explorations, and the nonsense and humour that imbued his work, the exhibition provides new keys for more clearly interpreting and understanding Duchamp’s work.

Marcel Duchamp, L.H.O.O.Q, 1919.

Private collection. © Succession Marcel Duchamp / ADAGP, Paris 2014.

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