Nude descending a staircase, no. Nu descendant un escalier nΒ° 2) is a 1912 painting by marcel duchamp. The work is widely regarded as a modernist classic and has become one of the Ò€¦

2), oil painting created in 1912 by french artist marcel duchamp. The painting created a sensation, but duchamp painted only a few more works, notably the large glass. When the french artist marcel duchamp arrived by ship to new york in 1915, his reputation, as the saying goes, preceded him. Two years earlier, in 1913, after an inauspicious debut in france, Ò€¦