Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 is a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp, widely regarded as a Modernist classic and one of the most famous works of its time. Rejected by the Cubists as too Futurist before its scheduled showing at the 1912 Salon des Indépendants in Paris, it was instead exhibited with the Cubists in Barcelona that year, then shown, and ridiculed, at the 1913 Armory Show in New York City.
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Painted by Marcel Duchamp, 1912.
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1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp.
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Duchamp's 1912 painting is classed with Cubism (also read as Cubo-Futurist).
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Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (French: Nu descendant un escalier n° 2) is a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp.
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It is now in the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
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The work is widely regarded as a Modernist classic and has become one of the most famous of its time. Before its first presentation at the 1912 Salon des Indépendants in Paris it was rejected by the Cubists as being too Futurist.
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Before its first presentation at the 1912 Salon des Indépendants in Paris it was rejected by the Cubists as being too Futurist.
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