Apolinère Enameled

Apolinère Enameled
Artist Marcel Duchamp
Year 1916-17 (1916-17)
Material Gouache and graphite on painted tin, mounted on cardboard
Dimensions 24.4 cm × 34 cm (9.6 in × 13 in)
Location Philadelphia Museum of Art
Accession 1950-134-73

Apolinère Enameled was painted c. 1916 by Marcel Duchamp, as a heavily altered version of an advertisement for paint ("Sapolin Enamel").[1] 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.

See also

  1. Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Apolinère Enameled". Retrieved 16 April 2014.

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