“the idea of movement…. just transferred from the Nude [ Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 - Duchamp painted this in 1912] into a bicycle wheel [ Bicycle wheel, his early ready-made from 1916-17].”

Quote in Looking at Dada, eds. Sarah Ganz Blythe & Edward D. Powers - The Museum of Modern Art New York, ISBN: 087070-705-1; p. 41
Duchamp is looking back shortly before his death in 1968
1951 - 1968

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French painter and sculptor 1887–1968

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