Anna Leporskaya’s Three Figures sent for restoration after guard doodled on it with a ballpoint pen on his first day
A valuable avant garde painting has been vandalised by a “bored” security guard who drew eyes on faceless figures in the artwork on his first day working in a Russian gallery.
Alexander Drozdov, the executive director of the Yeltsin Center, did not identify the security guard in a statement, but said he worked for a private security company and had been fired. “His motives are still unknown but the administration believes it was some kind of a lapse in sanity,” she said.
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