35-1Marcel Duchamp,Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2,1912. Oil on canvas, 4 10 2 11 . Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia (Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection).
The Armory Show of 1913 introduced European avant-garde art to America. Duchamp’s figure in motion down a staircase in a
time continuum reveals the artist’s indebtedness to Cubism and Futurism.
1 ft.