Marcel Duchamp 19
A restrained painting that takes as its point of departure a photograph by Man Ray made after the death of Marcel Duchamp. Centered on the face and stripped of narrative context, the image unfolds between document and pictorial image. Marcel Duchamp 19 translates a historical image into oil painting, sustaining a deliberate tension between presence and representation.
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Davis Lisboa, Marcel Duchamp 19, 2020. Oil on linen, 50 × 50 × 3.5 cm (19.7 × 19.7 × 1.38 in).
The painting takes as its point of departure a photograph by Man Ray made shortly after the death of Marcel Duchamp in 1968. Rather than reconstructing the scene, the work shifts the image into a pictorial register in which the document relinquishes its descriptive function.
The composition, centered on the face, removes any narrative reference. The surface is structured through a fragmented light that breaks down the features, placing the image in an unstable threshold between presence and representation.
Duchamp’s epitaph—“D’ailleurs, c’est toujours les autres qui meurent”—does not appear as a quotation, but as a latent structure that introduces distance and neutralizes any immediate emotional reading.
Marcel Duchamp 19 is sustained within this ambiguity. It is neither a commemorative image nor a historical reconstruction, but a painting that operates as a form of translation. Its force lies in maintaining that condition unresolved.
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| Weight | 3.3 kg |
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| Dimensions | 50 × 50 × 3.5 cm |
