The Life and Art of Marcel Duchamp Born on July 28, 1887, in Blainville, Normandy, France, Marcel Duchamp entered a world where the impulse to create was deeply embedded in his very blood. He was the fourth of seven children born to Eugene and Lucie Duchamp. This was a household of makers and thinkers; his siblings shared this creative restlessness, as his brothers Jacques Villon and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, along with his sister Suzanne Duchamp-Crotti, all pursued lives as artists. While he would eventually become a French American figure of immense complexity, his origins remained rooted in…