Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp (French Dada artist, 1887 - 1968) Marcel Duchamp is most celebrated for a woman rushing down a stairwell naked, a painting critics mocked from the start as degenerate French modern art. Wives sighed relief she’s less than revealing so invited their husbands for a viewing. Duchamp painted her stripped of any garb apropos to the art of the time – avant garde – a style abstracted from reality and untouched by prurient vulgarity devoid of any libidinous knowledge, unless her many overlapping legs. I suspect her lover’s knock she heard had her rushing hurriedly and blurred. Who he might have been is still unknown – some think Duchamp, discreetly not shown.