Philadelphia Museum of Art
Marcel Duchamp
Chocolate Grinder (No. 1)
1913
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Marcel Duchamp
Chocolate Grinder (No. 1)
1913
Oil on canvas
Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950
1950-134-69
Artist/maker
Marcel Duchamp
INFORMATIONS
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.

Dimensions

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)

Type de document

Emplacement

Made in France
CRÉDITS PHOTOGRAPHIQUES ET DROITS
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris / Association Marcel Duchamp

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ID du système source

51518