Marcel Duchamp implying that the woman in the painting is in a state of sexual excitement and availability. It may also have been intended as a Freudian joke, referring to Leonardo da Vinci's alleged homosexuality. Duchamp gave a "loose" translation of L.H.O.O.Q. as "there is fire down below" in a late interview with Arturo Schwarz. According to Rhonda Roland Shearer, the apparent "Mona Lisa" reproduction is in fact a copy modeled partly on Duchamp's own face. Research published by Shearer also speculates that Duchamp himself may have created some of the objects which he claimed to be "found objects". Duchamp worked on
Marcel Duchamp a Valise" (1935–41), "Self Portrait in Profile" (1958) and the larger work "Étant Donnés" (1946–66). In 1943, he participated with Maya Deren in her unfinished film "The Witch's Cradle", filmed in Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery. From the mid-1930s onward, he collaborated with the Surrealists; however, he did not join the movement, despite the coaxing of André Breton. From then until 1944, together with Max Ernst, Eugenio Granell, and Breton, Duchamp edited the Surrealist periodical "VVV", and served as an advisory editor for the magazine "View", which featured him in its March 1945 edition, thus introducing him to