Centre Pompidou to Present Largest Marcel Duchamp Retrospective in 50 Years at Grand Palais in 2027
From March 23 to August 1, 2027, the Centre Pompidou will present "Marcel Duchamp. Portrait possible," marking the most extensive retrospective of Marcel Duchamp since 1977. This exhibition, curated by Jeanne Brun, will take place at the Grand Palais in Paris and will showcase approximately 500 artworks and documents, featuring significant loans from American institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Notable pieces include Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase and Tu m' (1918). The show will delve into Duchamp's identity and his influences, including peers like Francis Picabia. Duchamp, who lived from 1887 to 1968, became a U.S. citizen in 1955. Major retrospectives were previously held in 1977, 2015, and 2018, and the Prix Marcel Duchamp was founded in 2000.
Key facts
- The Centre Pompidou will present "Marcel Duchamp. Portrait possible" at the Grand Palais from March 23 to August 1, 2027.
- It is the largest Duchamp retrospective in 50 years, since the 1977 exhibition at the Centre Pompidou's inauguration.
- The exhibition will feature approximately 500 works and documents by Duchamp and other artists.
- Major loans come from the Museum of Modern Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others.
- Key works include Nude Descending a Staircase, The Bride, ready-mades like À bruit secret and Apolinère Enameled, and Tu m' (1918).
- European loans include Richard Hamilton's replica of The Large Glass from Tate Britain and La Boîte-en-Valise from the Guggenheim collection in Venice.
- The curator is Jeanne Brun, director of the collection at the Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou.
- Duchamp gained fame in the U.S. after the 1913 Armory Show and became an American citizen in 1955; his major works are largely in American museums.
Entities
Artists
- Marcel Duchamp
- Jeanne Brun
- Richard Hamilton
- Francis Picabia
- Lucas Cranach the Elder
- Else von Freytag-Loringhoven
- Mary Reynolds
- Man Ray
- Jacques Villon
- Raymond Duchamp-Villon
- Cécile Debray
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Gauguin
- Henri Matisse
- Emil Nolde
- Wassily Kandinsky
- Robert Delaunay
- Alphonse Allais
- Frantisek Kupka
- Édouard Manet
- Arnold Böcklin
- Émile Bernard
- Georges Braque
- Odilon Redon
- Alexander Wilhelm Von Brill
- Rudolf Diesel
- Giorgio de Chirico
- André-Pierre Pinson
- Jacques Alexandre Charles
- Ulf Linde
- Étienne-Jules Marey
- Jules Laforgue
- Raymond Roussel
- Stéphane Mallarmé
- Comte de Lautréamont
- Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
- Rrose Sélavy
Institutions
- Centre Pompidou
- Grand Palais
- Musée national d'art moderne – Centre Pompidou
- Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen
- Museum of Modern Art
- Philadelphia Museum of Art
- Yale University Art Gallery
- Tate Britain
- Guggenheim
- Moderna Museet
- Armory Show
- Prix Marcel Duchamp
- Connaissance des Arts
- Galleria nazionale d'arte moderna
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- Libération
- Artribune
Locations
- Paris
- France
- Rouen
- United States
- Venice
- Italy
- Stuttgart
- Germany
- Düsseldorf
- Puteaux
- Rome
- San Francisco
- Blainville-Crevon
- Neuilly-sur-Seine
- New York