Apolinère Enameled

Apolinère Enameled was painted in 1916–17 by Marcel Duchamp, as a heavily altered version of an advertisement for paint ("Sapolin Enamel").^[1] The picture depicts a girl painting a bed-frame with white enamelled paint. The depiction of the frame deliberately includes conflicting perspective lines, to produce an impossible object. To emphasise the deliberate impossibility of the shape, a piece of the frame is missing. The piece is sometimes referred to as Duchamp's "impossible bed" painting.

Apolinère Enameled
Artist	Marcel Duchamp
Year	1916-17
Medium	Gouache and graphite on painted tin, mounted on cardboard
Dimensions	24.4 cm × 34 cm (9.6 in × 13 in)
Location	Philadelphia Museum of Art
Accession	1950-134-73

Apolinère is a play-on-words referencing the poet, writer and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire, a close associate of Duchamp during the Cubist adventure.^[1] Apollinaire wrote about Duchamp (and others) in his book The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations of 1913.^[2]

See also

• List of works by Marcel Duchamp
• Readymades of Marcel Duchamp