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Courtesy of McMullen Museum of Art
In the mid-1930s, surrealist artist Marcel Duchamp—former fauvist, cubist, dadaist, and student of engineering and mathematics—reacted against the static quality of the paint medium with his
Rotoreliefs
series, one of which is pictured here. Designed to spin on a turntable, the artist had 500 sets of the discs (six in each) made in 1935, which he planned to sell for 15 francs at the annual inventors' fair in Paris—but while he was awarded an honorable mention at the fair, he sold only one set the entire week.
Rotoreliefs
(No. 6), rotating on a turntable as intended, may be viewed at
Accommodations of Desire,
an exhibit at the McMullen Museum of Art, through March 24, along with 124 other surrealist works on paper collected by the late Julien Levy.
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