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...
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