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The Bride Stripped Bare by her 
Bachelors, Even  (unfinished, 1915-1923)
It is also known as The Large Glass.

There are two versions of it: 
one in Philadelphia and one in London. The one in the United States (above) is cracked. The actual plate glass was damaged in shipment in 1927 but Duchamp decided that he liked it that way. In 1936 he repaired but did not replace the broken glass.

Begun during the first World War, Duchamp said that The Large Glass was "a humanitarian protest against the war," critiquing society by featuring "absurdity for its own sake."

Duchamp made money from The Bride for many years by selling 300 copies of a work called The Green Box (1934).  The box (left) contains 93 documents (copies of sketches and notes) related to the design process.

  Duchamp's final work