17 Facts About Suzanne Duchamp

Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti was a French Dadaist painter, collagist, sculptor, and draughtsman.

Suzanne Duchamp's work was significant to the development of Paris Dada and modernism and her drawings and collages explore fascinating gender dynamics.

Suzanne Duchamp constantly lived in the shadows of her famous older brothers, who were artists, or she was referred to as "the wife of" fellow artist Jean Crotti.

Suzanne Duchamp took a large role as an avant-garde artist, working through a career that spanned five decades, during a turbulent time of great societal change.

Suzanne Duchamp used her work to express certain subject matter such as personal concerns about modern society, her role as a modern woman artist, and the effects of the First World War.

Suzanne Duchamp was the fourth of six children born into the artistic family of Justin Isidore Duchamp and Marie Caroline Lucie Duchamp, the daughter of painter and engraver Emile Frederic Nicolle.

Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti was the younger sister of famous artists Jacques Villon, a painter and printmaker, Raymond Duchamp-Villon, a sculptor, and Marcel Duchamp, a painter, sculptor and author.

Suzanne Duchamp was closest in age and temperament to Marcel Duchamp, forming and maintaining a close bond and emotional attachment with him throughout their lives.

Suzanne Duchamp began her studies as a painter at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in her native Rouen when she was sixteen years old in 1905.

Suzanne Duchamp worked in the Hotel des Invalides, one of the largest French military hospitals.

In 1916, Suzanne Duchamp met Jean Crotti, an artist who worked in the same studio as Marcel.

Suzanne Duchamp produced "Un et une menaces," "A Threatened Male and Female" which references mechanical symbolism as well as real machine parts, which greatly lends itself to the Dadaist movement.

Jean and Suzanne Duchamp were not very involved until 1921, but both exhibited three works in the prestigious Salon des Independants, alongside artists such as Francis Picabia.

Interestingly, Suzanne Duchamp inverted the painting so that it was presented upside down.

Suzanne Duchamp exhibited along with Marie Laurencin in "Les Femmes Artistes d'Europe" at the Musee du Jeu de Paume in 1937.

In 1945, after the war, Suzanne Duchamp became a member of the Union des Femmes Peintres et Sculpteurs and regularly exhibited landscapes, portraits, and flower still lifes at its salons.

Suzanne Duchamp died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France in 1963, within a month of being diagnosed with a brain tumor.