Nude Ascending the Staircase, Homage to Marcel Duchamp by Salvador Dali
measures 9 1/2" high, comes in original box, include COA, and is numbered FRA 221/350
" This bronze is Dali's ironical answer to the celebrated painting Nude Descending a Staircase, painted in 1911 by the master of the Dada movement and father of surrealism, Marcel Duchamp. In 1912, Duchamp exhibited Nude Descending a Staircase, Numero 2 at the Dalmau gallery in Barcelona. Perhaps Dali saw it there, or maybe he read what the critics had to say about it in the papers. Dali could not have been more pleased to render homage to his friend - and greatly amused himself by creating the realistic body of this woman ascending with large steps the spirals of a shell! "