Landscape
Marcel Duchamp
American, born France. 1887–1968
1908
An early oil on canvas by Marcel Duchamp in which a roadside row of trees is rendered as flattened, rhythmic planes of color that study structure and balance in nature.
You’re struck by the repeated verticals of slender, leaning trunks and the muted bands of earth and sky, painted with a textured, almost pastel-like touch that flattens forms into a steady, contemplative rhythm.
Painted before Duchamp’s radical turn to Dada and conceptual art, this work shows his training in post‑Impressionist structure and an early concern with the abstract ordering of space that underlies his later challenges to artistic convention.
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
18 1/8 x 24" (46 x 60.9 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Dorsky
Accession
703.1971
Palette
Exhibitions
