Duchamp to pay exclusive visit to Sydney

Over 150 iconic works by the French-American master Marcel Duchamp will make their way to the Art Gallery of NSW in 2019.
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Marcel Duchamp’s The Fountain (1917) will be travelling to Sydney next year for a major exhibition

The Essential Duchamp – it says it all! The Art Gallery of New South Wales (AGNSW) has announced this week that it will be bringing this iconic exhibition to Sydney in 2019, in an Australian exclusive as part of an Asia-Pacific tour.

Touted as ‘the most comprehensive exhibition dedicated to the art and life of Marcel Duchamp ever to be seen in the Asia-Pacific region’, The Essential Duchamp will visit Sydney in April 2019, after opening at the Tokyo National Museum this October to mark the 50th anniversary of the artist’s death, before travelling to the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea, then on to Sydney.

This major exhibition will include important early works including Portrait of Dr. Dumouchel 1910, Sonata 1911, and Chocolate Grinder (No. 2) 1914, along with the iconic work, Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2) 1912, which made Duchamp’s name when it was exhibited at the epochal Armory Show in New York in 1913.

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