SOULED

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by the artist ATB
BIRTH: 06/20/1985
DEATH: 06/20/1985
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THE VINCENZO PERUGGIA

Criminally smooth in your smock. You fell for her and we fell for it. We fell for mona — a pretty woman's beguiling smile.

DaVinci’s Mona Lisa had been regarded as a great work of art before it was even finished. But it wasn’t the most valuable or famous painting in the Louvre, let alone the world, until August 22, 1911. That’s the day news broke the Mona Lisa had been stolen.  As the media propagated its image around the world, people flocked to the Louvre to view the empty space where the painting once hung.

The thief was Vincenzo Peruggia, an Italian immigrant to France and maintenance worker at the Louvre. He and two conspirators removed the portrait from the wall, hid in a closet overnight, and absconded with it the next morning as patrons filled the galleries. He was tried and convicted after attempting to sell it to an art dealer two years later. Upon its return to the Louvre, the world had irreversibly become obsessed with the Mona Lisa. It’s an obsession that to this day compels tourists from around the world to queue for hours, eager to catch a glimpse (and a selfie) of the celebrity portrait.

WAVE 0.5 is the first WAVE in RUNWAY 5, a limited pre-release series of five WAVES spotlighting watershed works of art in debt to their context.

SHOWS

HOMECOMING
September 2024
Loudoun House
Lexington, Kentucky, USA

GIVE A DAMN OR DIE
August 2023
Loudoun House
Lexington, Kentucky, USA

WHEN WE WERE 36
JUNE 2023
Loudoun House
Lexington, Kentucky, USA

WAVE

0.5

MEDIUM

Gicleé

DIMENSIONS

12 x 18 in

MATERIAL

NEENAH® Cotton (297 GSM)

NO. OF COLORS

3

OPEN

04/17/2023 12:12:00 PM EDT

CLOSE

04/29/2023 12:12:00 PM EDT

TIME

12D 00H 00M 00S

0.5

.01

BIRTHMARK                   $0.50

0.5

.02

SOLD                        $1.00

0.5

.03

SOLD                        $2.00

0.5

.04

SOLD                        $4.00

0.5

.05

SOLD                        $8.00

0.5

.06

SOLD                       $16.00

0.5

.07

SOLD                       $32.00

0.5

.08

SOLD                       $64.00

0.5

.09

SOLD                      $128.00

0.5

.10

DEATHMARK                 $256.00

0.5

.11

-                         $512.00

0.5

.12

-                       $1,024.00

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