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 "found" components.


 * Louis Hirshman
 * Albert Einstein (1940) Caricature using mop hair, brush for nose and mustache, abacas chest. Gifted to the Philadelphia Museum of Art after Hirshman's death in 1986.
 * Adolf Hitler (1937) Caricature using gestapo glove hair, painter's brush nose and mustache, dust pan of manure for chest.
 * Groucho Marx (1937) Caricature using black gloves for hair, spools of thread for eyebrows, shoehorn nose, bow tie nose.


 * Saâdane Afif
 * Fountain Archive (2008-)


 * Ron Arad
 * Rover chair


 * 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


 * Man Ray (worked closely with Duchamp)
 * 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