Jet d'Eau Jet d'Eau The Jet d'Eau (, "Water-Jet") is a large fountain in Geneva, Switzerland, and is one of the city's most famous landmarks, being featured on the city's official tourism web site and on the official logo for Geneva's hosting of the 2008 UEFA Championships. Situated at the point where Lake Geneva empties into the Rhône, it is visible throughout the city and from the air, even when flying over Geneva at an altitude of . The first Jet d'Eau was installed in 1886 at the Usine de la Coulouvrenière, a little further downstream from its present location. It was
Fountain (Duchamp) one of the eight 1964 replicas of "Fountain". 17 November 1999, a version of "Fountain" (owned by Arturo Schwarz) was sold at Sotheby's, New York, for $1,762,500 to Dimitris Daskalopoulos, who declared that "Fountain" represented 'the origin of contemporary art'. The price set a world record, at the time, for a work by Marcel Duchamp at public auction. The record was surpassed in 2009 by his 1921 readymade "Belle Haleine, Eau de Voilette", a perfume bottle in its box which sold for $11.4 million. Fountain (Duchamp) Fountain is a readymade sculpture produced by Marcel Duchamp in 1917: a porcelain urinal