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The Museum of Modern Art announces Marcel Duchamp, the first North American retrospective of the artist’s work in over 50 years, on view in the Steven and Alexandra Cohen Center for Special Exhibitions. The last major retrospective of Marcel Duchamp’s (American, born France. 1887–1968) work was the 1973 survey co-organized by MoMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art; this exhibition offers 21st-century audiences the first opportunity to view the breadth of the artist’s creative output. The exhibition will present work across six decades of the artist’s multifaceted career, spanning all mediums, including painting, sculpture, film, photography, drawings, and printed matter.
Marcel Duchamp is organized by Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA, Michelle Kuo, Chief Curator at Large and Publisher, MoMA, and Matthew Affron, the Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, with Alexandra “Lo” Drexelius, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Painting and Sculpture, MoMA, and Danielle Cooke, Exhibition Assistant, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Following its presentation at MoMA, the exhibition will travel to the Philadelphia Museum of Art from October 10, 2026, through January 31, 2027. A version of the exhibition will be organized by Jeanne Brun, Deputy Director, Centre Pompidou – Musée National d’Art Moderne, with Pauline Creteur, Research Assistant to the Deputy Director at the Grand Palais in Paris in Spring 2027, where it will be co-produced by the Centre Pompidou and the GrandPalaisRmn.
The exhibition is made possible by Bank of America.
Leadership support is provided by the Eyal and Marilyn Ofer Family Foundation.
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Images
Marcel Duchamp. Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, 1912. Oil on canvas, 57 ⅞ x 35 ⅛” (147 x 89.2 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Marcel Duchamp. LHOOQ, 1919. Pencil on postcard (rectified readymade), 7 ¾ x 4 ⅞” (19.7 x 12.4 cm). Private Collection
Marcel Duchamp. Box in a Valise (From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy), 1935-41. Leather valise containing miniature replicas, photographs, color reproductions of works by Duchamp, and one “original” drawing [Large Glass, collotype on celluloid, 7 1/2 x 9 1/2″ (19 x 23.5 cm)], 16 x 15 x 4” (40.7 x 38.1 x 10.2 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Marcel Duchamp. Fountain, 1950 (replica of 1917 original). Porcelain urinal, 12 x 15 x 18” (30.5 x 38.1 x 45.7 cm). Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
Marcel Duchamp, Bicycle Wheel, 1951(third version, after lost original of 1913). Metal wheel mounted on painted wood stool, 51 x 25 x 16 ½” (129.5 x 63.5 x 41.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York