Marcel Duchamp

Gagosian is pleased to announce a significant presentation of key works by Marcel Duchamp to inaugurate the gallery’s new ground-floor space in the historic building at 980 Madison Avenue. The exhibition, opening on April 25, 2026, brings a selection of works—including all of the artist’s most iconic readymades—back to the location where these editions made their American debut in a 1965 exhibition at Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery. It also coincides with Duchamp’s first retrospective in the United States since 1973, which is on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, until August 22.

“It all started with Duchamp, I couldn’t imagine a better artist or a more critical body of work to be the first exhibited in our new gallery at 980 Madison, a building he showed in just over sixty years ago.”
—Larry Gagosian

The exhibition features the readymades that Duchamp produced in 1964 with the help of Italian gallerist Arturo Schwarz, given that many of the originals had been lost or destroyed over the years. Of these, Roue de bicyclette (Bicycle Wheel) (1964, after 1913 lost original) is the only surviving example not currently in the collection of a major international institution; other works on view include Fountain (1964, after 1917 lost original); L.H.O.O.Q. (1964, after 1919 original); Porte-bouteilles (Bottle Rack) (1964, after 1914 lost original); and Boîte-en-valise (1935–49; contents 1935–41). In these works, Duchamp memorialized his own oeuvre while subverting ideas of artistic integrity, authorship, and originality.