L.H.O.O.Q. a late interview (Schwarz 203), Duchamp gives a loose translation of "L.H.O.O.Q." as "there is fire down below". Francis Picabia, in an attempt to publish "L.H.O.O.Q." in his magazine 391 could not wait for the work to be sent from New York City, so with the permission of Duchamp, drew the moustache on Mona Lisa himself (forgetting the goatee). Picabia wrote underneath "Tableau Dada par Marcel Duchamp". Duchamp noticed the missing goatee. Two decades later, Duchamp corrected the omission on Picabia's replica, found by Jean Arp at a bookstore. Duchamp drew the goatee in black ink with a fountain pen,
De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise) De ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise) de ou par Marcel Duchamp ou Rrose Sélavy (La Boîte-en-valise) ("Valise" or box in a suitcase) is a series of reproductions of works by Marcel Duchamp conceived by the artist himself. A work of art in itself, the first "Valise" was made in 1936 and presented in 1941. Launched in 1936 and sold from 1941 by subscription in the United States, the box-in-a-suitcase is based on the idea of the condensed universe of the and a cabinet of curiosities as a portable museum. The work consists of a brown leather