Fountain is a 1917 work produced by
Marcel Duchamp. The piece was a porcelain
urinal, which was signed "R.Mutt" and titled
Fountain. Submitted for the exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists, in 1917, the first annual exhibition by the Society to be staged at The Grand Central Palace in New York,
Fountain was rejected by the committee, even though the rules stated that all works would be accepted from artists who paid the fee.
Fountain was displayed and photographed at
Alfred Stieglitz's studio, and the photo published in
The Blind Man, but the original has been lost. The work is regarded by art historians and theorists of the avant-garde, such as Peter Bürger, as a major landmark in 20th-century art. 17 replicas commissioned by Duchamp in the 1960s now exist.