''Yvonne and Magdeleine Torn in Tatters'' (French: ''Yvonne et Magdeleine déchiquetées'' ) is a 1911 painting by Marcel Duchamp, created when he was 24 years old. It depicts two of his younger sisters, Yvonne (1895) and Magdeleine (1898). Magdeleine was the youngest of his sisters and approximately 13 years old at the time. She is also the sitter for '' Apropos of Little Sister''. Both sisters appear, together with their mother in ''

Sonata Sonata (; Italian: , pl. ''sonate''; from Latin and Italian: ''sonare'' rchaic Italian; replaced in the modern language by ''suonare'' "to sound"), in music, literally means a piece ''played'' as opposed to a cantata (Latin and Italian ''cant ...

'', and with their older brothers in ''

The Chess Game ''The Chess Game'' is a painting of by Giulio Campi, a Renaissance painter from Cremona. Since 1970, it has been in the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica in Turin. It was first published in 1963 by Roberto Longhi whilst still in the Nigro collection i ...

'' from 1910. The title is a pun; the French word for tearing, ''déchiqueter'' sounds like ''echiquier, (checkerboard).'' Duchamp uses a cubist technique, fragmentation, but as he explained in an interview with Pierre Cabanne: "this tearing was fundamentally an interpretation of Cubist dislocation".

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{{20C-painting-stub Works by Marcel Duchamp 1911 paintings Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art

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