Marcel Duchamp’s Mona Lisa with moustache and beard. (Source: Sothebysfr/Instagram) Marcel Duchamp’s Mona Lisa with moustache and beard. The painting is in the spotlight again — thanks to artist Marcel Duchamp, who is known for his quirky sense of humour. As bizarre as it may sound, one of Duchamp’s reproductions of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, on to which he pencilled a beard and moustache, has sold for €632,500 ($750,000) at Sotheby’s in Paris. Another aspect of the Mona Lisa works is that they are entitled ‘L H O O Q’, which in French sounds like the phrase “elle a chaud au cul”, translated as “she’s horny”.

Source: Indian Express October 25, 2017 13:15 UTC