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On August 21, 1911, Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painting vanished from the Louvre. The perfect suspects were as surprising as the criminal offenses: Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire, young provocateurs of a fresh art work.
The sensational disappearing action captured the world’s thoughts. Crowds stood in line to see the vacant space on the museum wall structure. Hundreds more waited, as worried as though Mona Lisa were a lacking person, for news of the lost painting. Almost a hundred years later, questions still linger: Who really pinched Mona Lisa, and just why? Part love account, part enigma, Vanished Laugh reopens the puzzling circumstance that changed a Renaissance family portrait into the most enduring icon ever.
