Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe
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Illustration: Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe (1887) by Eugène Bataille
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Mona Lisa Smoking a Pipe[1][2] (French: Mona Lisa fumant la pipe) is an 'augmented' Mona Lisa by Arthur Sapeck (Eugène Bataille), first published as an illustration in Coquelin cadet's book Le Rire in 1887, accompanied by the text:
- "Voici un tableau de maître représentant une femme d’une beauté éclatante. Supposez, un instant, que, par hasard, le maître ait laissé dans la bouche de cette femme idéale, une, pipe culottée. — Vous riez. Voilà pour les yeux."[3]
English:
- "This is a masterpiece depicting a woman of striking beauty. Imagine for a moment that, by chance, the master has left in the mouth of this ideal beauty, a cheeky pipe -.. You laugh. For the eyes. "
The work directly prefigures the famous Marcel Duchamp image L.H.O.O.Q. of 1919.
The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines erroneously states that it was first shown in 1883 at the second "Incohérents" exhibition.
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See also
- The image is on the cover of The Spirit of Montmartre: Cabarets, Humor and the Avant Garde, 1875-1905 by Phillip Dennis Cate.
- French avant-garde
- Anti-art
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