Apolinère Enameled

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Artist Marcel Duchamp (French, 1887–1968)

Title Apolinère Enameled (Apolinère émaillé)

Date 1916–1917 original (1964 authorized replica)

Medium Metal, paper, corrected ready-made, and rectified ready-made

Dimensions Overall: 9 1/4 × 15/16 in. (23.5 × 2.4 cm)
Framed (plexi box): 16 15/16 × 20 11/16 × 1 3/8 in. (43 × 52.5 × 3.5 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Mr. Arne H. Ekstrom, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 71.96

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Marcel Duchamp challenged traditional definitions of art with his controversial readymades, produced between 1913 and 1921. The readymades were mass-produced items, some slightly altered, that Duchamp presented as works of art. In 1964, Duchamp and his Milan dealer Arturo Schwarz produced a limited edition of replicas of the original readymades, most of which had been lost.

Duchamp modified the wording in this advertisement for Sapolin Enamel, a commercial paint, to reference his friend, the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire.

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