Portrait of Marcel Duchamp by Baroness Freytag-Lohringhoven Charles Sheeler

''Portrait of Marcel Duchamp'' is a circa 1920–1922 work of art by Baroness

Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven Elsa Baroness von Freytag-Loringhoven (née Else Hildegard Plötz; 12 July 1874 – 14 December 1927) was a German avant-garde visual artist and poet, who was active in Greenwich Village, New York, from 1913 to 1923, where her radical self-displa ...

. It is an example of assemblage, made of an amalgamation of broken wine glasses, assorted feathers, tree twigs, and other unidentifiable objects in reference to

Marcel Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, ; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, Futurism and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Pica ...

, who created various

ready-mades A found object (a calque from the French ''objet trouvé''), or found art, is art created from undisguised, but often modified, items or products that are not normally considered materials from which art is made, often because they already have ...

beginning in 1913.Atkins, Robert: ''Artspeak'', 1990, Abbeville Press,

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''Portrait of Marcel Duchamp''
- Francis M. Naumann Fine Art *Tomkins, Calvin: ''Duchamp: A Biography'', Henry Holt and Company, Inc., 1996. {{sculpture-stub 1920 sculptures

Duchamp Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (, ; ; 28 July 1887 – 2 October 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, Futurism and conceptual art. He is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Pica ...