Entitled “The Three Figures”, represents faceless characters, on two of which the guard drew eyes with a ballpoint pen
A Russian museum revealed Thursday that one of his security guards gives an avant-garde picture of the 20th century, draw some eyes to the worka student of the legendary master of Suprematism Kasimir Malevitch.
The incident occurred in December 2021 and affected a by Anna Leporskaia, painter and decorator of the last century, exhibited in the Yeltsin center in Yekaterinburggreat city of the Urals.
titled “The Three Figures” This work from the 1930s, insured for 75 million rubles (880,000 euros), depicts faceless characters, on two of whom the guard drew eyes with a ballpoint pen.
The director of the Yeltsin center, Alexandre Drozdov, stated Monday at a meeting that the one who did the damage is a “employee of a private security company” with which the museum had a contract.
The painting was sent to Moscow, where it was restored.
The security agent, who fulfilled his first day of work in the place and was accused of “hooliganism”you can be sentenced to a fine and up to three months in jail.
The Yeltsin Center is named following the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who led the country from 1991 to 1999.
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