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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 American artist, Grandmaster, and inventor who played a key role in the development of the avant-garde in the United States and in New York City, where he spent the last 25 years of his life. Duchamp was one of the top-ranked chess players in the world during his lifetime and would be considered a 2000-2100 player on the modern USCF rating scale. Duchamp was the first artist to elevate a toilet to the status of an art form. By the time of World War I, he had rejected the work of many of his fellow artists (such as Henri Matisse) as "retinal," intended only to please the eye. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Duchamp is the 4th most popular artist (down from 3rd in 2019), the 160th most popular biography from France (down from 97th 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 4 out of 125. Before him are Hokusai, Andy Warhol, and Marina Abramović. After him are M. C. Escher, Yoko Ono, Jusepe de Ribera, Hans Holbein the Younger, Jean Arp, Victor Vasarely, Hiroshige, and Joseph Beuys.

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Among people born in 1887, Marcel Duchamp ranks 9. Before him are Erwin Schrödinger, Bernard Montgomery, Marc Chagall, Charles I of Austria, Erich von Manstein, and Padre Pio. After him are Srinivasa Ramanujan, Ernst Röhm, Gustav Ludwig Hertz, Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, Vidkun Quisling, and Arthur Rubinstein. Among people deceased in 1968, Marcel Duchamp ranks 6. Before him are Martin Luther King Jr., Yuri Gagarin, Helen Keller, Lise Meitner, and Padre Pio. After him are John Steinbeck, Otto Hahn, Lev Landau, Princess Marina of Greece and Denmark, Max Brod, and Henry Hallett Dale.

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In France

Among people born in France, Marcel Duchamp ranks 160 out of 6,770. Before him are Francis II of France (1544), Charles VI of France (1368), Pope Callixtus II (1065), Georges Braque (1882), Charles V of France (1338), and Pope Urban IV (1185). After him are Pope Leo IX (1002), Georges Pompidou (1911), Roman Polanski (1933), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619), Godfrey of Bouillon (1060), and Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684).

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Among ARTISTS In France

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

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