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Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2  1912

by Marcel Duchamp

On March 18, 1912, Marcel Duchamp received an unexpected visit from his two brothers, Jacques Villon and Raymond Duchamp-Villon, at his studio in Neuilly-sur-Seine. They informed their younger brother that the hanging committee of the Salon des Indépendants exhibition in Paris, which included themselves, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, and others, had rejected his [i]Nude ...
Size: 
151.8 x 93.3 x 5.1 cm
Medium: 
Oil on canvas
Credit: 
© Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/Estate of Marcel Duchamp

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  1. I think that this painting is a substantial improvement on " Nude Descending Staircase. No. 1 " It is shows more clearly what Duchamp was trying to say about the physiology of the nude figure particularly in descending rather than rising.