Marcel Duchamp

The artist, poet, chess player and radical thinker Marcel DUCHAMP (1887-1968, France) is best known as the originator of the so-called readymades. His work is mostly associated with dada, surrealism and conceptualism. In the final frame of Anémic Cinéma (1926) we see the name ‘Rrose Sélavy’, one of Duchamp’s pseudonyms. It is a pun, because it sounds like ‘Eros, c’est la vie’. The last 40 years of his life Duchamp devoted mostly to chess, film and collaborations on exhibitions.