Landscape

Marcel Duchamp

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.

Palette

Art Terms

Oil paint Canvas Painting Landscape Fauvism Post-Impressionism Abstraction Modern art

Exhibitions

What is Modern Painting?

1945

French Paintings from the Molyneux Collection

1952

Marcel Duchamp

1973

Summer Exhibition: Painting and Sculpture

1930