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Bicycle Wheel

New York, 1951 (third version, after lost original of 1913)

Marcel Duchamp

Material / technique
Metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool
Attribution / role
Collection / source
The Museum of Modern Art

Artwork notes

Artist-wide context

Choosing an ordinary object and placing it as art made the artist’s decision part of the question.

Materials, marks and colour

Artist-wide context; individual works may differ.

Media and surface

Paint, glass, manufactured objects and film deliberately cross disciplinary boundaries.

Marks and structure

An ordinary object’s position and title can become part of its structure.

Palette and light

Some works use muted colour; others replace colour decisions with the properties of found materials.

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