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Marcel Duchamp

1887 - 1968

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Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (UK: , US: ; French: [maʁsɛl dyʃɑ̃]; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. He has had an immense impact on 20th- and 21st-century art, and a seminal influence on the development of conceptual art. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Duchamp has received more than 3,982,593 page views. His biography is available in 75 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 73 in 2019). Marcel Duchamp is the 3rd most popular artist, the 97th most popular biography from France (up from 117th in 2019) and the most popular French Artist.

Marcel Duchamp is most famous for his painting, "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2."

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Among ARTISTS

Among artists, Marcel Duchamp ranks 3 out of 125. Before him are Hokusai, and Andy Warhol. After him are Yoko Ono, M. C. Escher, Jusepe de Ribera, Hans Holbein the Younger, Victor Vasarely, Anders Zorn, Hiroshige, Joseph Beuys, and Yves Klein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Marcel Duchamp ranks 4. Before him are Le Corbusier, Erwin Schrödinger, and Marc Chagall. After him are Chiang Kai-shek, Erich von Manstein, Charles I of Austria, Srinivasa Ramanujan, Padre Pio, Ernst Röhm, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, and Arthur Rubinstein. Among people deceased in 1968, Marcel Duchamp ranks 3. Before him are Yuri Gagarin, and Helen Keller. After him are Martin Luther King Jr., Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Padre Pio, John Steinbeck, Lev Landau, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, and Trygve Lie.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Duchamp ranks 97 out of 6,770. Before him are Michel de Montaigne (1533), Pierre-Simon Laplace (1749), George Sand (1804), Marquis de Sade (1740), Caracalla (188), and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864). After him are Claude Debussy (1862), Louis XI of France (1423), François Mitterrand (1916), Nicolas Poussin (1594), Philip II of France (1165), and Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1520).

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Among ARTISTS In France

Among artists born in France, Marcel Duchamp ranks 1. After him are Yves Klein (1928), Jean Arp (1886), Émile Gallé (1846), André Charles Boulle (1642), Nicholas of Verdun (1130), and Annette Messager (1943).

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