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
De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise) infinitive") also called "The White Box", gathering new unpublished notes from the period 19121920 in an edition of 150. The box contains 79 facsimiles of notes from 191423 in a Plexiglas case of 33.3 x 29 x 3.8 cm. The Fluxus group borrowed the idea of the "Boite-en-valise" ifor their "Fluxkits". Tate "The Bride Stripped Bare by her Bachelors Even (The Green Box)" De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise) de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise) ("Valise" or box in a suitcase) is a series of reproductions of works by Marcel Duchamp conceived