Naked Woman Climbing a Staircase (originally in French Femme nue montant l'escalier) is a drawing done with pencil and charcoal on card made by Joan Miró in 1937.

He was living in Paris when he started to attend life drawing classes at the school of the Grande Chaumiere.

Miró returned to constructing the human figure to represent the drama that was then taking place in Catalonia.

The woman is using her right arm to try to grab a ladder – this was a symbol that Miró used in several of his works to represent evasion or escape.

[4] Duchamp's painting was not original; it alluded to the earlier photographs by Eadweard Muybridge[6] which were amongst the first to record animal locomotion.