diff --git a/doc/source/user_guide/visualization.rst b/doc/source/user_guide/visualization.rst
index 66eeb74b363a3..4b5cdca23103c 100644
--- a/doc/source/user_guide/visualization.rst
+++ b/doc/source/user_guide/visualization.rst
@@ -1210,11 +1210,6 @@ You may set the ``xlabel`` and ``ylabel`` arguments to give the plot custom labe
 for x and y axis. By default, pandas will pick up index name as xlabel, while leaving
 it empty for ylabel.
 
-.. ipython:: python
-   :suppress:
-
-   plt.figure();
-
 .. ipython:: python
 
    df.plot();