L.H.0.0.Q. (She's Got A Hot Ass), 1919, Paris

Rectified readymade: pencil on a reproduction, 7 3/4 x 4 7/8 inches

"In 1919 I was back in Paris and the Dada movement had just made its first appearance there:

Tristan Tzara who had arrived from Switzerland, where the movement had started in 1916,

joined the group around Andre Breton in Paris. Picabia and I had alreadyshown in America our

sympathy for the Dadas.

This Mona Lisa with a moustache and goatee is a combination readymade and iconclastic Dadaism.

The orginal, I mean the original readymade is a cheap chromo 8 x 5 on which I inscribed

at the bottom four letters which like initials in French, made a very risque joke on the Gioconda."