Yvonne and Magdeleine Torn in Tatters

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.

Magdeleine was the youngest of his sisters and approximately 13 years old at the time.

[2] Both sisters appear, together with their mother in Sonata, and with their older brothers in The Chess Game 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".