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The man who moustachioed Mona Lisa
The man who moustachioed Mona Lisa

The man who moustachioed Mona Lisa

Date3/6/1968
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Original Toronto Star caption: The man who moustachioed Mona Lisa. Duchamp; the fun-loving innovator of modern art who once a moustache on the Mona Lisa and signed it as an original; in Paris yesterday aged 81. Considered by many to be Picasso's equal; the surrealist painter was better known in than in Frnace. He achieved fame in 1913 when a tried to destroy his famous Nude Descending a [Incomplete]
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0103807F
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5/13/1970
Gimmicky glamour: Above, Patrick Kelly's black mini with framed portraits of the Mona Lisa, left, Kelly and American entertainer Grace Jones at his show for spring or summer '89
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10/24/1988
Gimmicky glamour: Above, Patrick Kelly's black mini with framed portraits of the Mona Lisa, left, Kelly and American entertainer Grace Jones at his show for spring or summer '89
Gimmicky glamour: Above, Patrick Kelly's black mini with framed portraits of the Mona Lisa, left, Kelly and American entertainer Grace Jones at his show for spring or summer '89
10/24/1988
Gimmicky glamour: Above, Patrick Kelly's black mini with framed portraits of the Mona Lisa, left, Kelly and American entertainer Grace Jones at his show for spring / summer '89
Gimmicky glamour: Above, Patrick Kelly's black mini with framed portraits of the Mona Lisa, left, Kelly and American entertainer Grace Jones at his show for spring / summer '89
10/24/1988
There's just a trace of the famous Mona Lisa smile in that quizzical look of Jean Lorring, also Warner's, but there is, says her studio, nothing enigmatical or problematic about her rise to fame
There's just a trace of the famous Mona Lisa smile in that quizzical look of Jean Lorring, also Warner's, but there is, says her studio, nothing enigmatical or problematic about her rise to fame
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Rubber man: Sarah Evis, a fourth year general studies student at the Ontario College of Arts, is quite sure of this foam man sitting jauntily upon a bench
Rubber man: Sarah Evis, a fourth year general studies student at the Ontario College of Arts, is quite sure of this foam man sitting jauntily upon a bench
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Life-like Sculpture of a man, by Joe Fafard, seems to be giving Toronto architect Boris Zerafa a little constructive criticism. Zerafa likes to place (...)
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Gerald Gladstone's sculpture, Universal Man
Gerald Gladstone's sculpture, Universal Man
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The environment man: Zbigniew Blazeje
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Zina and one of her daughters view completed canvas: The artist's first one-man show was held on weekend in church auditorium
Zina and one of her daughters view completed canvas: The artist's first one-man show was held on weekend in church auditorium
10/21/1970