{"id":1879838,"date":"2026-04-13T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1879838"},"modified":"2026-04-13T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T09:00:00","slug":"gagosian-to-open-new-upper-east-side-gallery-with-a-duchamp-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=1879838","title":{"rendered":"Gagosian to Open New Upper East Side Gallery with a Duchamp Show"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tHaving been kicked out of its longtime home on Manhattan\u2019s Upper East Side, Gagosian is starting over in the neighborhood with a new space on the ground floor of 980 Madison Avenue, the same building where it formerly had a multilevel gallery.<\/p>\n

\n\tBecause Gagosian is such a force within the art industry, the inauguration of the new Upper East Side gallery will be closely watched by market observers. But the show being staged there, opening on April 25, is also an event for more art historically minded types.<\/p>\n

\n\tInaugurating the space is an exhibition for Marcel Duchamp, whose art rarely appears in commercial settings. Running in tandem with the Museum of Modern Art\u2019s recently opened retrospective, the show is being held in the same place where Duchamp had a New York exhibition at Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery in 1965, when the artist\u2019s reputation was not quite what it is today.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cIt all started with Duchamp,\u201d dealer Larry Gagosian said in a statement, adding,\u00a0\u201cI\u00a0couldn\u2019t imagine a better artist or a more critical body of work to be the first exhibited\u00a0in our new gallery at 980 Madison, a building he showed in just over sixty years ago.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tIncluded in the show will be replicas of Duchamp\u2019s most famous readymades, including a 1964 version of Fountain<\/em>, his 1917 sculpture composed of a urinal stood on its side. Duchamp worked to create these replicas with dealer Arturo Schwartz that year, in part to resolve a practical issue: the originals for some of his most famous sculptures had been lost. But as the MoMA show argues, Duchamp also did this as a conceptual strategy, to degrade the value of the original and question what counted as a copy.<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso among the works in the show is a 1964 version of Roue de bicyclette<\/em>\u00a0(Bicycle Wheel)<\/em>, his 1913 readymade composed of a bicycle wheel planted in a wooden stool. According to Gagosian, this readymade is the only version of Bicycle Wheel<\/em> not held by a museum.<\/p>\n

\n\tA Gagosian spokesperson declined to comment on whether the exhibition was a selling one, and the gallery\u2019s announcement did not specify whether the objects in it were loans. (Gagosian periodically stages shows of historical art that have included loans, with their press releases typically stating when the gallery has borrowed works from institutions.)<\/p>\n

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Marcel Duchamp, Roue de Bicyclette (Bicycle Wheel)<\/em>, 1964 (after lost 1913 original).<\/span>Photo Owen Conway\/\u00a92026 Association Marcel Duchamp\/ADAGP, Paris\/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York\/Courtesy Gagosian<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n\tDuchamp\u2019s work is highly sought-after on the market, due both to his art historical importance and the limited amount of his art still available for purchase. Few of the readymades in the 300-work MoMA show belong to private collectors.<\/p>\n

\n\tOn the rare occasions when Duchamp works do make it to market, they sell for large sums. His auction record was set in 2009 with the Christie\u2019s sale of Belle Haleine \u2013 Eau De Voilette (Beautiful Breath \u2013 Veil Water)<\/em>, a 1921 sculpture in which a perfume bottle is covered in a label referring to Rrose S\u00e9lavy, Duchamp\u2019s female alter ego. Formerly owned by the designer Yves Saint Laurent and his onetime partner Pierre Berg\u00e9, it sold for $11.5 million at the auction house\u2019s Paris branch, outpacing its estimate six times over.<\/p>\n

\n\tHis \u201cBo\u00eete-en-valise\u201d works\u2014small suitcases stuffed with miniature versions of his readymades and paintings\u2014also periodically come to auction, selling in the low seven figures.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is the first time that Gagosian, one of the world\u2019s biggest galleries, has held a Duchamp solo show since 2014. That show also appeared at 980 Madison Avenue.<\/p>\n

\n\tGagosian first opened an office in the building in 1987, then went on to lease units on multiple floors as gallery space. In 2023, Artnet News<\/em> reported that Gagosian and other galleries in the building were getting kicked out after the building\u2019s management gave over most of the property to Bloomberg Philanthropies. The last show staged at its prior location is a well-received survey of Jasper Johns\u2019s crosshatched paintings that remains on view through April 24.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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