Apolinère Enameled
Painting by Marcel Duchamp
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Apolinère Enameled was painted in 1916–17 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 includes conflicting perspective lines that produce an impossible object already found in the original paint ad, where a part of the frame is missing. The piece is sometimes referred to as Duchamp's "impossible bed" painting.
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| Artist | Marcel Duchamp |
| Year | 1916-17 |
| Medium | Gouache and graphite on painted tin, mounted on cardboard |
| Dimensions | 24.4 cm × 34 cm (9.6 in × 13 in) |
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| Accession | 1950-134-73 |
Apolinère is a play-on-words referencing the poet, writer and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire, a close associate of Duchamp during the Cubist adventure.[1] Apollinaire wrote about Duchamp (and others) in his book The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations of 1913.[2]
