Étant donnés

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Étant donnés is Marcel Duchamp’s final major artwork, an enigmatic mixed-media installation featuring a voyeuristic tableau viewed through peepholes in a wooden door.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf artwork
installation art
mixed-media artwork
collection Philadelphia Museum of Art
commissionedBy self-initiated by Marcel Duchamp
completionDate 1966
conservationStatus on permanent display
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
creator Marcel Duchamp
depicts female nude
gas lamp
landscape
waterfall
dimension room-sized installation
displayedIn gallery dedicated to Marcel Duchamp at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
genre conceptual art
surrealist art
hasCatalogNumber Philadelphia Museum of Art accession number 1969-41-1 (approximate, check museum records for exact)
hasPart brick wall façade
illuminated gas lamp
mechanized waterfall effect
painted landscape backdrop
real twigs and foliage
reclining nude figure
wooden door with peepholes
inception 1946
influenced contemporary conceptual artists
later installation art
languageOfTitle French
location Philadelphia Museum of Art
movement Conceptual art
Dada
notableFor being Marcel Duchamp’s final major artwork
being constructed in secret
posthumous revelation to the public
subjectMatter eroticism
illusion and reality
the gaze
voyeurism
title Étant donnés: 1° la chute d’eau, 2° le gaz d’éclairage
unveiled 1969
usesTechnique assemblage
installation
mixed media
viewingMethod seen through peepholes

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Marcel Duchamp notableWork Étant donnés