Bottle Rack

A 1959 replica of the work, on display at the Art Institute of Chicago

The Bottle Rack (also called Bottle Dryer or Hedgehog) (Egouttoir or Porte-bouteilles or Hérisson) is a proto-Dada artwork created in 1914 by Marcel Duchamp. Duchamp labeled the piece a "readymade", a term he used to describe his collection of ordinary, manufactured objects[1] not commonly associated with art. The readymades did not have the serious tone of European Dada works, which criticized the violence of World War I, and instead focused on a more nonsensical nature, chosen purely on the basis of a "visual indifference".[2]

The Art Institute of Chicago purchased one of the replicas of Bottle Rack in 2018.[3][4]

  1. ^ "The Collection | MoMA". The Museum of Modern Art.
  2. ^ Cabanne, Pierre (1987). Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp. New York, N.Y.: Da Capo Press. pp. 47–48. ISBN 0-306-80303-8.
  3. ^ Russeth, Andrew (February 13, 2018). "Robert Rauschenberg's Rare Duchamp Readymade Goes to Art Institute of Chicago". ARTnews. Retrieved February 15, 2018.
  4. ^ Johnson, Steve (February 13, 2018). "Art Institute Wins Global Competition for Modern Masterpiece – a Multimillion Dollar Bottle Rack". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved February 15, 2018.