Apolinère Enameled

{{Short description|Painting by Marcel Duchamp}}

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| artist = Marcel Duchamp

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| year = 1916-17

| material = Gouache and graphite on painted tin, mounted on cardboard

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Apolinère Enameled was painted in 1916–17 by Marcel Duchamp, as a heavily altered version of an advertisement for paint ("Sapolin Enamel").{{cite web|last=Philadelphia Museum of Art|title=Apolinère Enameled|url=http://www.philamuseum.org/collections/permanent/51563.html|accessdate=16 April 2014}} The picture depicts a girl painting a bed-frame with white enamelled paint. The depiction of the frame deliberately includes conflicting perspective lines, to produce an impossible object. To emphasise the deliberate impossibility of the shape, a piece of the frame is missing. The piece is sometimes referred to as Duchamp's "impossible bed" painting.

Apolinère is a play-on-words referencing the poet, writer and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire, a close associate of Duchamp during the Cubist adventure. Apollinaire wrote about Duchamp (and others) in his book The Cubist Painters, Aesthetic Meditations of 1913.[https://books.google.com/books?id=UZ4Gu7a7V9UC&pg=PA220 Herschel Browning Chipp, Peter Selz, Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics, University of California Press, 1968, pp. 221–248], {{ISBN|0-520-01450-2}}