Year 1916-17 (1916-17) Period Dada | Accession 1950-134-73 Created 1916 Genre History painting | |
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Medium Gouache and graphite on painted tin, mounted on cardboard Dimensions 24.4 cm × 34 cm (9.6 in × 13 in) Marcel Duchamp artwork Why Not Sneeze - Rose Sél, Prelude to a Broken Arm, With Hidden Noise, Fresh Widow, Young Girl and Man in Spring | ||
Apolinère Enameled was painted c. 1916 by Marcel Duchamp, as a heavily altered version of an advertisement for paint ("Sapolin Enamel"). The picture depicts a girl painting a bed-frame with white enamelled paint. The depiction of the frame deliberately includes conflicting perspective lines, to produce an impossible object. To emphasise the deliberate impossibility of the shape, a piece of the frame is missing. The piece is sometimes referred to as Duchamp's "impossible bed" painting.
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