In Reply to: nu descendant l'escalier (1912) posted by olivier marchand on February 16, 19100 at 06:39:41:
Dear Olivier,
we do not provide descriptions and
interpretations but here are some
books and sources to go into that will
sufficiently help you:
For a reproduction of the
'Nude descending a Staircase No.2' (1912) on the
web, see: www.toutfait.com:
if you go to the Articles-section and then
to Francis M. Naumann's contribution, you'll
see a later pochoir of the piece halfway through
the article. The Animations-section of Tout-Fait
provides you with another image and explains the
impact the painting had when shown at the Armory
Show of 1913 in NY (including President
Roosevelt's remarks on the matter).
As a starter for an interpretation see: Dawn Ades,
Neil Cox, David Hopkins (eds.), Marcel Duchamp
(London: Thames and Hudson, 1999), pp. 42-65
Good luck,
Thomas