Image: Installation view, Marcel Duchamp, Gagosian, 980 Madison at 76th Street, New York. Artwork © Association Marcel Duchamp/ADAGP, Paris/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 2026. Photo: Owen Conway
Gagosian has extended its presentation of Marcel Duchamp at 980 Madison at 76th Street in New York through September 26, 2026. The exhibition, which opened April 25, inaugurates the gallery’s new ground-floor space in the historic Madison Avenue building and brings together key works by Duchamp, including the artist’s most iconic readymades.
The presentation has a specific New York historical connection. The editions on view are being shown at the location where they made their American debut in a 1965 exhibition at Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery. The exhibition opened alongside Duchamp’s first retrospective in the United States since 1973, which was on view at the Museum of Modern Art in New York until August 22, 2026.
Among the works presented is ‘Roue de Bicyclette (Bicycle Wheel)’ from 1964, made after the original 1913 work was lost. The sculpture consists of a metal bicycle wheel and fork mounted on a painted wooden stool. The exhibition page identifies it as the only surviving example of the 1964 work not currently held in the collection of a major international institution.
Other works include ‘Fountain’ (1964), produced after the lost 1917 original; ‘L.H.O.O.Q.’ (1964), following the 1919 work; ‘Porte-chapeaux (Hat Rack)’ (1964), after the lost 1917 original; and ‘Porte-bouteilles (Bottle Rack)’ (1964), after the lost 1914 original. The exhibition also includes ‘Fresh Widow’ (1964), based on the 1920 work, and ‘Boîte-en-valise’ (1935–49; contents 1935–41), a portable museum of reproductions and miniature versions of Duchamp’s work.
Many of the readymades on view were produced in 1964 with the assistance of Italian gallerist Arturo Schwarz, as numerous original objects had been lost or destroyed. The later editions extend Duchamp’s sustained examination of how artistic value, authorship and originality are established. By remaking earlier works, the artist created objects that simultaneously memorialized his own career and questioned the status of the unique art object.
The exhibition’s location adds another layer to its presentation. The building at 980 Madison Avenue is described by the gallery as a historic site where Duchamp showed more than six decades ago. In announcing the exhibition, Larry Gagosian said that Duchamp was the artist he considered most appropriate for the opening of the new space. The exhibition remains on view Monday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., at 980 Madison at 76th Street, New York, through September 26, 2026.
