Disappearance Day Centenary

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Today is the 100th anniversary of the theft of Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa [aka La Gioconda/La Joconde] from the Musée du Louvre, Paris, by Vincenzo Peruggia (below).

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...

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Here are a few of y/our postcards from around that time

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all of which, under your image, recount the bottom line :

LA JOCONDE, de Léonard de Vinci
Disparue du Musée du Louvre le 21 Aout 1911

On this first card someone's over-written that, upside down
so you can glance down and read,
and over your lovely mouth there's a smudge of postal ink

or somesuch

It's the sort of thing could provoke a young Marcel
to pen a saucy mot and
add a hairy frame a swell
o' tongue et la langue, even

by Marcel Duchamp (1919) : click image to enlarge

Here's another postal souvenir to celebrate this day and date.

Just three weeks since your disappearance,
the sender signs their initials and their date (Le 13/9/11)

over the monogram of the printer,

or is it of the publisher?

or some passing engraver tagger?

The more you are
the less you are

The less you are
the more you are
Infinitely Empty

Supreme Goddess as Void
with projection-space for image

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A Person Looks At A Work Of Art/
someone looks at something ...

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HAPPY RETURNS OF THE DAY

from all your admirers at

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