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Security guard accused of drawing eyes on faceless figures in $1M painting
washingtonexaminer.com ^
| February 09, 2022
| Virginia Aabram
Posted on 02/09/2022 7:24:49 PM PST by BenLurkin
Officials at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg in central Russia announced Monday they believe the perpetrator was a private security guard who, during his first day on the job, added eyes to the faceless figures with a ballpoint pen. He has since been fired, and the Three Figures painting, done by Anna Leporskaya between 1932 and 1934, has been sent back to Moscow for restoration.
The painting is insured for nearly $1 million and was on loan from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. The damage will be remedied with a restoration expected to cost over $3,000, according to the Moscow Times.
Two visitors first reported the additions to the Soviet-era avant-garde image in December.
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TOPICS: Arts/Photography
KEYWORDS: annaleporskaya; threefigures
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:24:49 PM PST
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BenLurkin
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:26:03 PM PST
by
Fester Chugabrew
(No nation that sanctions the wholesale slaughter of its unborn citizens is fit to endure.)
To: BenLurkin
It does look slightly better.
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:26:29 PM PST
by
Larry Lucido
(Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
To: BenLurkin
There’s a lot of dreck in the art world.
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:27:35 PM PST
by
skr
(May God confound the enemy)
To: BenLurkin
He thought it was creepy the way their eyes didn’t follow him around the room.
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:28:19 PM PST
by
gundog
( It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:28:48 PM PST
by
ifinnegan
(Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:30:21 PM PST
by
hoe_cake
To: gundog
If he had drawn masks on them, he would have been a hero.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:33:31 PM PST
by
Nateman
(Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy America has ever had. 🍊)
To: BenLurkin
Should’ve drawn mustaches. That always gets laughs.
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:34:19 PM PST
by
Ken H
(Trump won.)
To: BenLurkin; Daffynition
The damage will be remedied with a restoration expected to cost over $3,000, according to the Moscow Times. Let a local babushka do it. Faceless no more!
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:34:55 PM PST
by
Ezekiel
("Come fly with US". Ingenuity -- because the Son of David begins with Mars.)
To: BenLurkin
All alone guarding that all night. I can see the temptation he must have felt.
To: BenLurkin
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:36:50 PM PST
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
To: Nateman
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:37:28 PM PST
by
Nateman
(Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy America has ever had. 🍊)
To: BenLurkin
You wrecked it, you buy it!
Given his salary is likely no more than $100/week, no problem! He can keep $50/week before tax, to cover his living expenses, and pay $50/week to the museum, for the painting.
Voila! By 2222, it’s his!
</sarc>
To: BenLurkin
Reminds me of the Daffy Duck cartoon where he draws mustaches on everything:
.
Office Porky Pig eventually catches up with him, only to see him acquitted by a jury of Jerry Colonnas
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:39:01 PM PST
by
P.O.E.
To: A Formerly Proud Canadian; BenLurkin
Sorry, at $50/week it can be his by 2422! No problemm
To: skr
If a ten-year-old can do it, it’s not art.
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posted on
02/09/2022 7:40:58 PM PST
by
Jeff Chandler
(THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
To: Nateman
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02/09/2022 7:41:01 PM PST
by
Nateman
(Xi Jinping is the most diabolical enemy America has ever had. 🍊)
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