List of found objects

This list of found objects is a list of notable artworks, by artist, which are found objects (or are composed of found objects). These are each followed by a description of the non-art components.

• Saâdane Afif

Fountain Archive (2008-)

• Ron Arad

Rover chair^[1]

• Marcel Duchamp (Recent research has suggested that Duchamp's readymade artworks may have been custom-made impostors. However, there are accounts of Walter Arensberg and Joseph Stella being with Duchamp when he purchased the original Fountain at J. L. Mott Iron Works.)

Apolinère Enameled (1916), bed frame

Bicycle Wheel (1913)

Bottle Rack (1914)

Comb (1916)

In advance of the broken arm (1915), snow shovel

Fountain (1917), urinal

Pulled at 4 pins (1915), chimney ventilator

Trap (1917), coatrack

• Michael Craig-Martin

An Oak Tree

• Picasso

Chèvre, ceramic pottery shards, wicker basket, palm leaf, metal bits

Guenon et son petit (1951) [Baboon and Young], two toy cars, pottery jar, pitcher and bowl handles, automobile spring

Glass of Absinthe, silver straining spoon

Tête de taureau (1942), bicycle seat and handlebars

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• Man Ray (worked closely with Duchamp) ^[3]

The Gift (Le Cadeau in French) (1921), iron with fourteen nails glued to its sole

The enigma of Isidore Ducasse (1920, reconstructed 1971), an unseen object (a sewing machine) wrapped in cloth and tied with cord

Object to Be Destroyed (1923-1957) and Indestructible Object (1958), metronome(s) with a photograph of an eye attached to its swinging arm

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