Landscape
Marcel Duchamp
American, born France. 1887–1968
Neuilly, January-February 1911
An oil on canvas landscape by Marcel Duchamp that reduces a countryside to rounded, color-saturated forms, privileging mood and structural rhythm over literal depiction.
You first notice the bold, almost musical arrangement of flattened hills—vivid turquoise and deep crimson masses rimmed in dark contours beneath a pearly sky—so the scene reads like a memory or dream rather than a precise place.
Painted in 1911, it shows Duchamp engaging with Fauvism and Post-Impressionism—flattening space and stressing color relationships—which helped push the landscape toward modernist abstraction and foreshadowed his later experimental practice.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 1/8 x 24" (46.3 x 61.3 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Katherine S. Dreier Bequest
Accession
148.1953
Palette
Exhibitions
