Marcel Duchamp Enter a
feeling, not
a gallery.
Choose a mood and the room itself answers — the light cools or warms, the air changes pace, and only the works that carry that feeling step forward from the dark. Everything else recedes into shadow.
Marcel Duchamp
The Life and Art of Marcel Duchamp Born on July 28, 1887, in Blainville, Normandy, France, Marcel Duchamp entered a world where the impulse to create was deeply embedded in his very blood. He was the fourth of seven children born to Eugene and Lucie Duchamp. This was a household of makers and thinkers; his siblings shared this creative restlessness, as his brothers Jacques Villon and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, along with his sister Suzann
e Duchamp-Crotti, all pursued lives as artists. While he would eventually become a French American figure of immense complexity, his origins remained rooted in the quietude of Normandy. His life was never a singular pursuit of the brush or the chisel. He was a man of many masks and many interests, moving through the world as an artist, an inventor, and a dedicated chess player. He even adopted a female alter ego, Rrose Sélavy, to furt…