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'''Etant donnés''' (''Given: 1 The Waterfall, 2. The Illuminating Gas'', French: ''Etant donnés: 1° la chute d'eau / 2° le gaz d'éclairage''.) is Marcel Duchamp's last major art work which surprised the art world that believed he'd given up art for chess 25 years earlier. It is a tableau, visible only through a peep hole in a wooden door, of a nude woman lying on her back with her face hidden and legs spread holding a gas lamp in the air in one hand against a landscape backdrop.
Duchamp worked secretly on the piece from 1946 to 1966 in his Greenwich Village studio while even his closest friends thought he had abandoned art.
It is made of an old wooden door, bricks, velvet, twigs, a female form made of leather, glass, linoleum, and an electric motor. Duchamp prepared a "Manual of Instructions" in a 4-ring binder explaining and illustrating how to assemble and disassemble the piece.
It wasn't until 1969 that the Philadelphia Museum of Art revealed the tableau to the public.
★ Tomkins, Calvin: ''Duchamp: A Biography'', Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1996. ISBN 0-8050-5789-7
★ Hulten, Pontus (editor): ''Marcel Duchamp: Work and Life'', The MIT Press, 1993. ISBN 0-262-08225-X
★ Outside view of ''Etant donnés'' at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
★ Inside view of ''Etant donnés''
Duchamp worked secretly on the piece from 1946 to 1966 in his Greenwich Village studio while even his closest friends thought he had abandoned art.
It is made of an old wooden door, bricks, velvet, twigs, a female form made of leather, glass, linoleum, and an electric motor. Duchamp prepared a "Manual of Instructions" in a 4-ring binder explaining and illustrating how to assemble and disassemble the piece.
It wasn't until 1969 that the Philadelphia Museum of Art revealed the tableau to the public.
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| Notes and references |
| External links |
Notes and references
★ Tomkins, Calvin: ''Duchamp: A Biography'', Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1996. ISBN 0-8050-5789-7
★ Hulten, Pontus (editor): ''Marcel Duchamp: Work and Life'', The MIT Press, 1993. ISBN 0-262-08225-X
External links
★ Outside view of ''Etant donnés'' at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
★ Inside view of ''Etant donnés''
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