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) 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 by the artist himself. A work of art in itself, the first "Valise" was made in 1936 and presented in 1941. Launched in 1936 and sold from 1941 by subscription in the United States, the box-in-a-suitcase is based on the idea of the condensed universe of the and a cabinet of curiosities as a portable museum. The work consists of a brown leather