Apolinère Enameled was painted in 1916–17 by Marcel Duchamp, as a heavily altered version of an advertisement for paint ("Sapolin Enamel"). The picture depicts a girl painting a bed-frame with white enamelled paint. The depiction of the frame includes conflicting perspective lines that produce an impossible object already found in the original paint ad, where a part of the frame is missing. The piece is sometimes referred to as Duchamp's "impossible bed" painting.
Apolinère is a play-on-words referencing the poet, writer and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire, a close associate of Duchamp during the Cubist adventure. Apollinaire wrote about Duchamp (and others) in his book The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations of 1913.Herschel Browning Chipp, Peter Selz, Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, University of California Press, 1968, pp. 221–248,
See also List of works by Marcel Duchamp Readymades of Marcel Duchamp
References
External links Philadelphia Museum of Art