A hundred years ago, in 1925, Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) had long returned from New York back to Paris. His Readymade phase was pretty much over, just as he had abandoned painting for more than ...

One of the most famous examples is Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain," an inverted urinal simply signed "R. Mutt," which he argued elevated the otherwise prosaic object into a "readymade" sculpture.

Unravelling some lesser-known details about an international art revolutionary, we acquaint you with the figure of another. Marcel Duchamp, the outstandingly influential, idiosyncratic figure of 20th ...