Fountain

readymade sculpture attributed to Marcel Duchamp consisting of a porcelain urinal signed “R. KELLY » z’l
VisualArtwork found_object Q1206847
Fountain
Marcel Duchamp · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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Fountain

Summary

Fountain is a found object[1]. Fountain draws 1,369 Wikipedia views per month (found_object category, ranking #1 of 1).[2]

Key Facts

  • Fountain is the creator of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven[3].
  • Fountain is the creator of Marcel Duchamp[4].
  • Fountain's image is recorded as Duchamp Fountaine.jpg[5].
  • Fountain's instance of is recorded as found object[6].
  • Fountain's instance of is recorded as urinal[7].
  • Fountain's instance of is recorded as sculpture[8].
  • Fountain's owned by is recorded as Tate Modern[9].
  • Fountain's owned by is recorded as Tate[10].
  • Fountain's genre is recorded as art of sculpture[11].
  • Fountain's made from material is recorded as porcelain[12].
  • Fountain's made from material is recorded as oil paint[13].
  • Fountain's collection is recorded as Israel Museum[14].
  • Fountain's collection is recorded as San Francisco Museum of Modern Art[15].
  • Fountain's collection is recorded as Tate Modern[16].
  • Fountain's collection is recorded as Philadelphia Museum of Art[17].
  • Fountain's collection is recorded as Eskenazi Museum of Art[18].
  • Fountain's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 182379309[19].
  • Fountain's inventory number is recorded as T07573[20].
  • Fountain's GND ID is recorded as 4570648-7[21].
  • Fountain's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n98092977[22].
  • Fountain's location is recorded as Tate Modern[23].
  • Fountain's part of is recorded as readymades of Marcel Duchamp[24].
  • Fountain's Commons category is recorded as Fountain (Duchamp)[25].
  • +1917-00-00T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Fountain[26].
  • Fountain's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06l_7n[27].

Body

Works and Contributions

Created works include Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven[3], a sculptor[28], 1874–1927[29], of Germany[30], specialised in poetry[31] and Marcel Duchamp[4], an actor[32], 1887–1968[33], of France[34], specialised in painting[35].

Why It Matters

Fountain draws 1,369 Wikipedia views per month (found_object category, ranking #1 of 1).[2] Fountain has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[36] Fountain is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[37]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] . wikidata.org.
  3. [7] . wikidata.org.
  4. [8] . wikidata.org.
  5. [9] . tate.org.uk. Retrieved . tate.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [10] . tate.org.uk. Retrieved . tate.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  7. [11] . wikidata.org.
  8. [3] . Baroness Elsa: Gender, Dada, and Everyday Modernity. A Cultural Biography. Retrieved . tate.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [4] . tate.org.uk. Retrieved . tate.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . Art UK website. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . tate.org.uk. Retrieved . tate.org.uk. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [29] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [32] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [33] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  7. [34] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  8. [35] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [36] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [37] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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