I have been wanting to write to you for some time, but never have time, so absorbed I am in playing chess. I play night and day and nothing in the wh… - Marcel Duchamp

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I have been wanting to write to you for some time, but never have time, so absorbed I am in playing chess. I play night and day and nothing in the whole world interests me more than finding the right move.. .Nothing transcendental going on here – strikes [in Buenos Aires, where chess competitions were organized that year for not professionals] a lot of strikes, the people are on the move. Painting interests me less and less.

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About Marcel Duchamp

Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp (July 28, 1887 – October 2, 1968) was a French painter, sculptor, chess player, and writer whose work is associated with Cubism, Dada, and conceptual art. Duchamp is commonly regarded, along with Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, as one of the three artists who helped to define the revolutionary developments in the plastic arts in the opening decades of the 20th century, responsible for significant developments in painting and sculpture. He was the first artist creating 'ready-made' in modern art.

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Alternative Names: Henri Robert Marcel Duchamp • Rrose Sélavy • R. Mutt • Rose Sélavy • Marcel Duchamp-Villon • Marsel Dushan • Duxiang • Henri-Robert-Marcel Duchamp • Marcel Duchamp- Villon • Rrose Selavy • Rose Selavy
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