On Monday, New York City’s Fox affiliate ran a segment about the record-breaking sale of Pablo Picasso’s Les Femmes d’Alger (version O), a modern masterpiece that was auctioned off for $179.35 million (including the commission paid to Christie’s). Like many of Picasso’s paintings, the work featured some female nudity, albeit of the Cubist variety—which the station decided to censor.
Inspired by the station’s expert blurring, we decided to see what other masterpieces of art history would look like if censored by an overzealous local news channel.
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Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix, 1830
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Madonna Litta, Leonardo da Vinci, 1490–1491
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Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, Marcel Duchamp, 1912
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Series I, No. 8, Georgia O’Keeffe, 1919
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Blue Nude II, Henri Matisse, 1952
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The Garden of Earthly Delights, Hieronymus Bosch, 1503–1504
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Le fermier et son épouse, Joan Miró, 1936
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Benefits Supervisor Sleeping, Lucian Freud, 1995
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The Luncheon on the Grass, Édouard Manet, 1862–1863
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No. 36 (Black Stripe), Mark Rothko, 1958
