Chocolate Grinder (No. 2)

Gallery 282, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (d’Harnoncourt Gallery)

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Chocolate Grinder (No. 2)

1914

Marcel Duchamp (American (born France), 1887–1968)

After a chance encounter with a chocolate grinder displayed in a confectioner’s window in the French city of Rouen in 1913, Duchamp made the machine the subject of two paintings, adopting a representational style that recalls the precision of an engineering diagram. His rendering flattens the image and conflates the artist’s hand with mechanical reproduction.

Gallery 282, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (d’Harnoncourt Gallery)

Object Details

Title:

Chocolate Grinder (No. 2)

Date:

1914

Artist:

Marcel Duchamp (American (born France), 1887–1968)

Medium:

Oil, graphite, and thread on canvas

Dimensions:

25 3/4 × 21 3/8 inches (65.4 × 54.3 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

The Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950

Accession Number:

1950-134-70

Geography:

Made in France, Europe

Provenance

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Gallery 282, Modern and Contemporary Art, second floor (d’Harnoncourt Gallery)

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