"Whose works include ""Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2"" (1912) and a parody of the ""Mona Lisa"" (1919) which shows a moustache and goatee attached to a cheap reproduction of the painting?"
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (French: "Nu descendant un escalier n° 2") is a 1912 painting by Marcel Duchamp. The work is widely regarded as a Modernist classic and has become one of the most famous of its time. Before its first presentation at the 1912 Salon des Indépendants in Paris it was rejected by the Cubists as being too Futurist. It was then exhibited with the Cubists at Galeries Dalmau's "Exposició d'Art Cubista", in Barcelona, 20 April–10 May 1912. The painting was subsequently shown, and ridiculed, at the 1913 Armory Show in
Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 New York City. "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" was reproduced by Guillaume Apollinaire in his 1913 book, "Les Peintres Cubistes, Méditations Esthétiques". It is now in the Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. The work, an oil painting on canvas with dimensions of 147 cm × 89.2 cm (57.9 in × 35.1 in) in portrait, seemingly depicts a figure demonstrating an abstract movement in its ochres and browns. The discernible "body parts" of the figure are composed of nested, conical and cylindrical abstract elements, assembled together in such a way as to suggest rhythm