Marcel Duchamp 13 (Ear)

A compelling portrait of Marcel Duchamp captured in a moment of visual slippage. Drawing on Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, Davis Lisboa turns blur, delay, and distortion into a painting of rare precision and presence.

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Davis Lisboa, Marcel Duchamp 13 (Ear), 2018. Oil on linen, 40 × 40 × 3.5 cm (15.7 × 15.7 × 1.38 in).

Marcel Duchamp 13 (Ear) is part of The Paintings Section From Davis Museum Barcelona, a series that redefines portraiture through the instability of the image. Based on a still from Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests, the work presents Duchamp through a displaced vision, almost out of register.

The face never fully settles into view. The image feels like a photographic snapshot taken a fraction too late, just as the figure has already begun to move. This slight delay creates an immediate visual tension, where recognition and disappearance occur at the same time.

Rather than correcting that distortion, the painting takes it as its central condition. What might be understood as a photographic error is transformed here into a precise and active image, where accident becomes pictorial language.

Its square format and chromatic restraint intensify the work’s presence. Concise and direct, the painting turns an unstable instant into a sustained image, where portraiture emerges not through definition, but through displacement and perception.