Hat Rack
Duchamp, Marcel
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Alternative Title
Porte-chapeau
Date
1964Description
assisted readymade: wooden hat rack suspended from the ceiling. Original lost. Dimensions not recorded.
no inscription.
When asked why he suspended some of his work by the ceiling, he replied that it was a way to escape from conformity, which demands that works of art be hung on the wall or presented on easels.
-- from Schwarz, Arturo, 1924- The complete works of Marcel Duchamp / New York : Delano Greenidge Eds., c1997, p.656.
1964 replica: made June, 1964 in Milan, Italy by Arturo Schwarz under the artist's supervision from photograph of the lost original.
edition of eight, recognised as:
Edition Gallerie Schwarz, Milan full view
Type of Work
Ready-madeSubject
Dadaism, Consumption (Economics), Ready-mades, Wit and humor, Sculpture, French --20th century
Rights Statement
All rights reserved
Item is Part of
123976