Marcel Duchamp. Portrait possible

Fifty years after the first Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, the Grand Palais is devoting an exhibition to the artist who made an ordinary object a question addressed to art. Works from the Centre Pompidou’s collections sit alongside loans from the MoMA and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The itinerary revisits the readymades and the way Duchamp played with his own role, even taking on another identity under the name Rrose Sélavy.

This play on appearances provides the thread running through the retrospective. Duchamp appears there, in turn, as inventor of forms, a chess player, or an artist who blurs the lines about what he signs. The connections with Man Ray, Francis Picabia, and Mary Reynolds place these experiences within a circle of friendships and collaborations. They also show how his ideas circulated well beyond his own works.

Practical information
• Nocturne on Fridays until 10 p.m.
• Closed on Mondays, May 1 and July 14.