On November 5, 2002, I purchased for $11,950 Marcel Duchamp's color reproduction of Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa: L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved (1965), (S. 615).
I pencilled a moustache and goatee on to the "L.H.O.O.Q Shaved" card and cutted it into irregular puzzle pieces.
Today is a right time to launch this artwork on the market.
Marcel Duchamp's moustachioed Mona Lisa has sold for $750,000 a few years ago.
I think that the value of my product is somewhere between the two prices, so the starting bid is $381,000.
Marcel Duchamp's Mona Lisa works are entitled L.H.O.O.Q, which in French sounds like the phrase “elle a chaud au cul”, roughly translated as “she’s horny”, so the product an effective aphrodisiac as well.
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L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved (1965)
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MARCEL DUCHAMP
L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved (S. 615)
color reproduction of the Mona Lisa (readymade playing card), pasted to an invitation (trimmed), signed in ink, inscribed 'rasée', from the edition of 100, with full margins, pale light-staining, mat staining at the sheet edges, otherwise in good condition, framed
S. 8¼ x 5½ in. (211 x 138 mm.)
L.H.O.O.Q. Shaved (S. 615)
color reproduction of the Mona Lisa (readymade playing card), pasted to an invitation (trimmed), signed in ink, inscribed 'rasée', from the edition of 100, with full margins, pale light-staining, mat staining at the sheet edges, otherwise in good condition, framed
S. 8¼ x 5½ in. (211 x 138 mm.)
L.H.O.O.Q. Mona Lisa, 1919
Image credits: www.artsy.net
Retouched readymade (reproduction of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa with added moustache and beard).