[Image]Nude Descending a Staircase No. 2 - 1912
Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) painted little after completing the iconic work shown above. Instead, he focused on playing chess, advising art collectors and creating non-art assemblages that he claimed were art, setting the stage for all that wonderful Postmodernism we've been subjected to for the past 50 years.

But his past, those pre-"Nude" days, are largely terra incognita so far as Standard Narrative Art History is concerned. Perhaps that's because it might damage Duchamp's reputation if

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this image was widely known and associated with his name.

What you see is a detail of the painting below.

[Image]Portrait d'Yvonne Duchamp-Villon née Bon - 1907
I spotted it recently while visiting the Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida.