Word: mona
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the author followed a method once used by Duchamp for writing music-he drew notes and musical markings out of a bag at random. But the volume makes up for the grab-bag text by reproducing almost every known work of Expressionist Cubist-Surrealist Duchamp, from his mustachioed Mona Lisa and famed Nude Descending a Staircase to the catalogue cover he decorated with a foam-rubber breast and the caption: "Please touch...
...Lady with a Handkerchief ($250,000), Pierre Renoir's Portrait of Claude ($20,000), Peter Paul Rubens' The Elevation of the Cross ($20,000). It was probably the biggest art robbery in modern times, and certainly the most sensational since Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre...
History for Support. Will the paintings be found? History is full of successful art thefts. A Louvre workman named Vincenzo Peruggia carted away the $1,000,000 Mona Lisa in broad daylight by stripping it from its frame and tucking it under his shirt; he was caught two years later only because he tried to sell it to an honest Florence art dealer. Three centuries earlier, the Duke of Modena became so enraptured with Correggio's Virgin with St. Magdalen and St. Lucy that he had it stolen from the church of Albinea, and it has never been found...
Searching for passengers on the June 10 New York-to-Liverpool voyage, the Daily Express placed three transatlantic calls to Mrs. Mona Kucker, a Norwalk, Conn, dog breeder who had sat at the captain's table. Mrs. Kucker gave the first real rundown on the charges. "I have a letter from Captain Armstrong," said she, "saying that he has been accused of chasing young girls around the ship and sitting in the main lounge with Mrs. Silverstone on his knee, zipping and unzipping her dress." Added Mrs. Kucker: "Nothing like that even loosely transpired...
...owned the Mona Lisa would you stop going to art galleries and museums and looking at other paintings? What's wrong with looking...