In Advance of the Broken Arm

Marcel Duchamp · August 1964 (fourth version, after lost original of November 1915)

Here we have In Advance of the Broken Arm — a sculpture by Marcel Duchamp, August nineteen sixty-four (fourth version, after lost original of November nineteen fifteen). The piece is wood and galvanized-iron snow shovel, about 1.3 by 1 meters. Duchamp was part of the Dada movement.

Medium Wood and galvanized-iron snow shovel · Dimensions 52" (132 cm) high · Credit Gift of The Jerry and Emily Spiegel Family Foundation

Hanging beside it in Gallery 505: The Horse

Works like this one elsewhere in the museum: Guitar

More by Marcel Duchamp here: Why Not Sneeze Rose Sélavy?, Network of Stoppages, Landscape, The Chess Players, The Passage from Virgin to Bride, Duplicate of Top Inscription or Milky Way with The Nine Shots (supplementary suite, plate 6) from The Large Glass and Related Works, Vol. 1