An autographed, well-used toilet was named the most influential work of modern art by a 500-member panel convened in anticipation of next week's Turner Prize.

Marcel Duchamp's Fountain a tilted and signed white urinal that shocked the art world in 1917, beat out two of Picasso's most well-known works, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Guernica, and scored ahead of Andy Warhol's fabulously famous Marilyn Diptych and Henri Matisse's poetic masterpiece, The Red Studio.

Attendance at the Turner exhibition has been rising after a sharp fall in the wake of 1998's showing of Chris Ofili's elephant dung paintings, seen by more than 1,400 visitors a day.

PoopReport hopes the art viewing public responds enthusiastically to this year's awarding of top honors to Duchamp's "Fountain," a tribute to modern humanity's most common function, waste elimination.

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