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apr 1, 1917 - Marcel Duchamp, Fountain, 1917.

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Fountain is a readymade sculpture by Marcel Duchamp in 1917, consisting of a porcelain urinal signed "R. Mutt". In April 1917, an ordinary piece of plumbing chosen by Duchamp was submitted for the inaugural exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, to be staged at the Grand Central Palace in New York.

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apr 1, 1917
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~ 109 years ago