Woman Descending a Staircase 2016

                                              

Marcel Duchamp Nude Descending a Staircase(2) 1912

                                        

     Gerhard Richter Woman Descending a Staircase 1965

Edward Muybridge Study, Woman descending a staircase 1887

                                     

What rattles around in an artist's brain?  When I did "Woman Descending a Staircase" I had a vague memory of Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase, not an image that particularly resonated with me, but one that I knew from my art history.  In my mind, I was doing the Holly Roberts version of Duchamp's masterpiece.  Come to find out that I was not the only one, and that Duchamp was probably using Muybridge's wonderful study from 1887 as inspiration for  his controversial and naughty piece.  Good company indeed!