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- Marcel Duchamp
- The Non-Dada
- 1922
- GMA 3966
- On Display
![La Marie mise a nu par ses celibataires même (Boîte verte) [The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box)]](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/4/collection/GMA A42_2_GKL1012.jpg)
- Marcel Duchamp
- La Marie mise a nu par ses celibataires même (Boîte verte) [The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors, Even (The Green Box)]
- 1934
- GMA A42/2/GKL1012
![La Boîte-en-Valise [Box in a Suitcase]](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/4/collection/GMA 3472.jpg)
- Marcel Duchamp
- La Boîte-en-Valise [Box in a Suitcase]
- 1935 - 1941
- GMA 3472
- On Display
![Prière de Toucher [Please Touch] (Cover of the Exhibition Catalogue 'Le Surréalism en 1947')](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/4/collection/GMA A33_3_DSL_019.jpg)
- Marcel Duchamp
- Prière de Toucher [Please Touch] (Cover of the Exhibition Catalogue 'Le Surréalism en 1947')
- 1947
- GMA A33/3/DSL/019
- On Display
![Feuille de vigne femelle [Female Fig Leaf]](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/4/collection/GMA 3967.jpg)
- Marcel Duchamp
- Feuille de vigne femelle [Female Fig Leaf]
- 1950 / 1961
- GMA 3967
- On Display
![Coin de chasteté [Wedge of Chastity]](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/4/collection/GMA 3968.jpg)
- Marcel Duchamp
- Coin de chasteté [Wedge of Chastity]
- 1954 / 1963
- GMA 3968
- On Display
Marcel Duchamp (French / American, 1887 - 1968)
Duchamp was born in France, but lived for much of his adult life in America. In 1911 he was painting in a cubist style, but he virtually stopped painting after 1912. Duchamp was intrigued by the idea that ordinary, mass-produced things could be considered as art objects in their own right. He preferred simply to sign, and sometimes alter, household objects, terming them 'readymades'. On moving to America in 1915, Duchamp became a leading figure in the New York Dada group, along with Picabia and Man Ray. His questioning attitude towards definitions of authenticity, originality, artistry and authorship has been immensely influential.
