Marcel Duchamp Bicycle Wheel 1913

Bicycle wheel was created in 1913 by marcel duchamp in dada style.

Marcel duchamp bicycle wheel 1913. To designate this form of manifestation. In 1913 i had the happy idea to. In 1913 recalled marcel duchamp i had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and watch it turn 1 the result bicycle wheel is the first of duchamp s readymades objects sometimes manufactured or mass produced selected by the artist and designated as art. The museum of modern art new york.

Bicycle wheel 1913 reconstructed 1964 materials technique sculptures readymades painted wooden stool and bicycle wheel impression 4 8 edition no 4 from an edition of 8 publisher galleria schwarz primary insc signed and dated under the seat of the stool fibre tipped pen marcel duchamp 1964 4 8 dimensions overall 126 5 h cm stool 50 4 h cm. The artist marcel duchamp speaking in 1946. This is the work purchased by the museum of modern art currently on show at the ngv. It was nearly 40 years before the ready mades were seen as more than read more.

In 1913 i had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and watch it turn. It was around that time that the word ready made came to my mind. In 1913 he produced the bicycle wheel which was simply an ordinary bicycle wheel in 1914 pharmacy consisted of a commercial print of a winter landscape to which he added two small figures reminiscent of pharmacists bottles. Close up of the wheel in marcel duchamp s bicycle wheel 1951 third version after lost original of 1913 metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool.

This second version of 1916 was also lost but in 1951 duchamp authorized an exhibition copy for sidney janis and inscribed in green on the wheel. In 1913 i had the happy idea to fasten a bicycle wheel to a kitchen stool and watch it turn duchamp apropos of readymades 1951 actually made prior to the artist s coining the term this readymade is commonly termed the first of duchamp s readymades duchamp himself has confirmed this claim but also glories in the inherent contradiction of such a designation. Like most of duchamp s existing readymades moma s bicycle wheel is a later version of an earlier creation made for a 1951 exhibition at the sidney janis gallery in new york. Marcel duchamp 1913 1959 sic.

Bicycle wheel is made up of a metal bicycle wheel mounted on a painted wooden stool. Marcel duchamp s bicycle wheel was first made in 1913 and was considered to be one of his first readymades an object or objects found by duchamp and labelled as art.