Société des Artistes Indépendants
Duchamp submitted the work to appear with the Cubists at the 28th exhibition of the Société des Artistes Indépendants, Paris, 25 March through 16 May 1912. It appeared under the number 1001 of the catalogue, entitled simply "Nu descendant l'escalier", not "Nu descendant un escalier n° 2". This catalogue revealed the title of the painting to the general public for the first time, even though the painting itself would be absent from the exhibition.