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

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  • 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

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