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Exhibition shows the backbone of Moderna Museet’s Marcel Duchamp collection

STOCKHOLM.- The Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts and Moderna Museet present De ou par Marcel Duchamp par Ulf Linde. The focus is not on an artwork and an artist, but on half a century of acute visual and intellectual interpretation, by Ulf Linde. The results include the backbone of Moderna Museet’s Duchamp collection, supplemented for the exhibition by replicas of Duchamp’s works never previously exhibited. At the end of the 1950s, few people suspected that Marcel Duchamp would come to be seen as one of the most important artists of the century, and the most significant for the future development of art. In Stockholm, however, Marcel Duchamp was early on a major figure on the art scene that grew up around Moderna Museet. A unique encounter took place between Duchamp and Linde, the outcome being that Linde’s replicas were given Duchamp’s signature. Ulf Linde’s early work with Duchamp also laid t