Editing Marcel Duchamp (section)

==Art market==
On 17 November 1999, a version of ''Fountain'' (owned by the critic and gallerist [[Arturo Schwarz]]) was sold at [[Sotheby's]], New York, for $1,762,500 to Dimitris Daskalopoulos, who declared that ''Fountain'' represented the origin of [[contemporary art]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/11/18/arts/more-records-for-contemporary-art.html |title=More Records for Contemporary Art |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=18 November 1999 |work=The New York Times |access-date=24 November 2018}}</ref> The price set a world record, at the time, for a work by Marcel Duchamp at public auction.<ref>[https://www.toutfait.com/marcel-duchamp-money-is-no-object-the-art-of-defying-the-art-market/ Francis M. Naumann, "The Art Defying the Art Market"], ''Tout-fait: The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal'', vol. 2, 5, April 2003</ref><ref>[http://www.thecityreview.com/s02pco1.html Carter B. Horsley, ''Contemporary Art & 14 Duchamp Readymades''], The City Review, 2002</ref> The record has since been surpassed by a work sold at [[Christie's]] Paris, titled ''[[Belle Haleine, Eau de Voilette]]'' (1921). The readymade of a perfume bottle in its box sold for a record $11.5&nbsp;million (€8.9&nbsp;million).<ref>[http://www.artnews.com/2009/03/03/saint-laurent-collection-soars-at-christies-paris/ Laurie Hurwitz, ''Saint Laurent Collection Soars at Christie's Paris'']. Duchamp's ''Belle haleine–Eau de voilette'', 1921</ref>