Marcel Duchamp #10
Derived from a still of Marcel Duchamp’s only live television interview, Marcel Duchamp #10 extends Davis Lisboa’s sustained engagement with image, authorship, and the afterlife of modernity. Through a restrained pictorial treatment, the work moves beyond portraiture toward a more unstable and resonant field shaped by memory, mediation, and presence.
The Michael Zammuto Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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Davis Lisboa, Marcel Duchamp #10, 2017. Oil on canvas, 40 × 40 × 3 cm (15.75 × 15.75 × 1.38 in)
This work forms part of Davis Lisboa’s ongoing engagement with the figure of Marcel Duchamp. Derived from a still of the only live television interview Duchamp ever gave—broadcast by the BBC in 1968, shortly before his death—the painting takes a familiar image as its point of departure while displacing it from its original context.
The image is approached not as document, but as construction. Embedded within it are key positions that shaped Duchamp’s thinking: a critique of “retinal” art, a refusal of the artist as heroic figure, and an insistence on the continuity between artistic practice and everyday life.
A restrained, softened treatment introduces a measured instability that unsettles the clarity of the portrait. The work moves away from likeness toward a more open register, where the image operates through memory, mediation, and projection.
Within Lisboa’s practice, the painting maintains a sustained relation between image, archive, and institution. Marcel Duchamp #10 ultimately functions as a precise and self-contained reflection on authorship, the circulation of images, and the enduring critical space opened by modernity.
The Michael Zammuto Collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
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| Weight | 2.5 kg |
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| Dimensions | 40 × 40 × 3.5 cm |
