14 Rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris, France
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
1922
Suzanne Duchamp.
1924
Louise Norton-Varèse, Edgard Varèse, Suzanne Duchamp, Jean Crotti, and Mary Reynolds.
1922
Suzanne Duchamp.
1924
Louise Norton-Varèse, Edgard Varèse, Suzanne Duchamp, Jean Crotti, and Mary Reynolds.
14 Rue Bonaparte, 75006 Paris, France
École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts.
Duchamp was born in Blainville-crevon, Haute-Normandie, France, on October 20, 1889. The fourth of six children, she was born to Eugene and Lucie Duchamp, the artistic family. She was the younger sister of Jacques Villon née Gaston Duchamp, painter and printmaker, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, sculptor, and Marcel Duchamp, painter, author and sculptor. Suzanne Duchamp was almost of the same age and temperament with Marcel. They remained close throughout their adult lives.
Suzanne Duchamp began studying painting at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Rouen in 1905. She became familiar with avant-garde art through a local modern painting organization and her brothers, three of them were studying art in Paris.
In 1911 Duchamp moved to the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, with the intention to be near her brother Marcel and to expand her artistic career. The artistic community allowed Suzanne Duchamp to hold her first major solo exhibition at the age of 22 at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris.
Until 1916 Suzanne Duchamp created almost nothing because of the outbreak of the First World War. During the war she served as a nurse. After the war, she produced her first dadaist works titled Multiplication brisée et rétablie. It was finished in 1919, and it was a typical example of her dadaist work. It is considered that the idea for this work came directly from her private experience.
In 1920 the artist completed her work, Ariette of Oblivion in the Thoughtless Chapel. It is believed to be the strongest Dadaist work that she created. The inspiration for this piece appeared from the dedication she experienced in her relationship. The same year she presented some of her works at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, along with Francis Picabia and her husband, Jean Crotti. In 1921 she and Crotti organized a two-person show of their work at the Galerie Montaigne. The catalogue to the exhibition featured a title "TABU Dada", which pointed the way to a new stage in their production.
In 1922 Suzanne Duchamp started to create figurative paintings in a naive style. Those artworks resembled the works of Raoul Dufy or the Douanier Rousseau. In later years her husband received much more attention, nevertheless, Duchamp continued to exhibit her work. In 1956 her paintings appeared in a solo show in Paris.
In 1967, Marcel Duchamp helped organize an exhibition entitled Les Duchamp: Jacques Villon, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, Marcel Duchamp, Suzanne Duchamp. A part of this family exhibition was later presented at the Modern Art National Museum, Paris.
Scottish Espagnole
Usine de Mes Pensées
Fabrique de joie
Self-Portrait
Broken and Restored Multiplication
Solitude entonnoir (Funnel of solitude)
Marcel Duchamp's Unhappy Readymade
Radiation of Two Lone Ones at a Distance
Pot of Flowers (litograph with Jacques Villon)
Ariette d'oubli de la chapelle étourdie
Au bord de la Marne
Still Life
Radiation de deux seuls éloignés
Jean Crotti accordeoniste
Paysage au palmier
Bord de mer
Port de Nice
Sans titre
Nice, le ballet des mouettes
Französische Hafenstadt
Scene de village
Port de Nice
Paysage de méditerrannée
Portrait de M. Duchamp
Vase de fleurs
Paysage de montagne enneigée
Femme au chat
Portrait de Marcel Duchamp
Portrait de Picabia
Femme au buste nu
Suzanne Duchamp married a pharmacist in 1911. However, the couple divorced after only two years of living together. In 1919 Duchamp remarried artist Jean Crotti, whose painting she would greatly influence.
