Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2

Marcel Duchamp, 1912. Cubist colleagues objected to the painting before its planned showing at the Salon des Indépendants, and Duchamp withdrew it. It went on view in Barcelona that spring and drew ridicule at the 1913 Armory Show in New York. Follow the overlapping planes downward to find a sequence of steps in a painting that refuses to settle into a single pose.