Chocolate Grinder (No. 1)
Marcel Duchamp, American (born France), 1887 - 1968
Geography:
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1913Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
24 3/8 x 25 3/8 inches (61.9 x 64.5 cm) Framed: 25 1/2 × 26 5/8 × 1 5/8 inches (64.8 × 67.6 × 4.1 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel DuchampCuratorial Department:
European Painting
1950-134-69Credit Line:
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
Made in France, Europe
Date:
1913Medium:
Oil on canvasDimensions:
24 3/8 x 25 3/8 inches (61.9 x 64.5 cm) Framed: 25 1/2 × 26 5/8 × 1 5/8 inches (64.8 × 67.6 × 4.1 cm)Copyright:
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Estate of Marcel DuchampCuratorial Department:
European Painting
* Gallery 182, Modern and Contemporary Art, first floor (d’Harnoncourt Gallery)
Accession Number:1950-134-69Credit Line:
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
Label:
This work was inspired by a chocolate grinding machine that Marcel Duchamp saw in the window of a confectioner's shop in Rouen, France. The artist rendered the machine in a dry and impersonal painting style, akin to the precise mechanical drawing found in architectural plans. Duchamp was fascinated with the rotating drums of the chocolate grinder, which had a sexual connotation for him, and the machine would reappear several times in his work, most notably in the lower section of The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) of 1915-23.
This work was inspired by a chocolate grinding machine that Marcel Duchamp saw in the window of a confectioner's shop in Rouen, France. The artist rendered the machine in a dry and impersonal painting style, akin to the precise mechanical drawing found in architectural plans. Duchamp was fascinated with the rotating drums of the chocolate grinder, which had a sexual connotation for him, and the machine would reappear several times in his work, most notably in the lower section of The Bride Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, Even (The Large Glass) of 1915-23.
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