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) carrying case (the prospectus describes it as a "leather pull-out box"), 40 x 37.5 x 8.2 cm, containing 69 reproductions of the major works by Duchamp, including many photographs, lithographs and miniature replicas of ready-mades like "Fountain", and reduced-sizes models on (cellulose acetate) such as "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even." From 1941 to 1966, 312 boxes were produced for subscribers. The first 22, titled "La boîte-en-valise" or "Valise", were made by the artist himself (as luxury editions) and contain an original work. All are signed "De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy" ("From or by Marcel