
Marcel Duchamp, 'Bicycle Wheel', 1913-1964
2001
A meticulously rendered miniature reproduction of Marcel Duchamp's iconic readymade, *Bicycle Wheel*, painted in oil on canvas and presented in a frame crafted by Pettibone himself. This work exemplifies Pettibone's signature practice of replicating landmark works of modern art at a dramatically reduced scale, simultaneously paying homage to and critically interrogating concepts of originality and authorship. By translating Duchamp's three-dimensional found-object sculpture into a tiny painted image, Pettibone layers yet another level of appropriation onto one of art history's most celebrated challenges to traditional notions of the art object.
- Medium
- oil on canvas, in artist's frame
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
May 17, 2017
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