Art · Skopia

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3 works

Fountain

1917

Duchamp submitted a porcelain urinal signed R. Mutt to an exhibition he was helping to judge, and the committee rejected it.

★ 9.5

1921 · Tate Modern, London

Part boiler, part elephant, with a tusked hose coming out of its head. Ernst took the shape from a photograph of an African grain bin.

★ 7.2

1919 · Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia

Duchamp bought a postcard of the Mona Lisa, drew a moustache on it, and added five letters that make a crude joke in French.

★ 6.5