Bored Security Guard Doodles Eyes on $1M Painting on First Day on Job

TooFab ^ | 2/10/2022 | By TooFab Staff

[Daffynition]

A Russian security guard on his first day on the job lifted his boredom by doodling on a $1million painting.

Anna Leporskaya's avant garde Three Figures, painted sometime in the early 1930s, features three humanoid figures devoid of any facial features. Devoid, that is, until the unnamed guard got his hands on a ballpoint pen.

On day one of working at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre in Yekaterinburg, the new employee decided to sketch a set of eyes on two of the figures, in what exhibition curator Anna Reshetkin described as "a lapse of sanity".

[Daffynition]

[maddog55]

Guards name Hunter by any chance?

[Bobalu]

[Fresh Wind]

Ruined? I’d say it was an improvement. It’s probably worth $2 million now.

[HYPOCRACY]

Da. Is good now!

[marktwain]

Bet the guard was drunk.

Alcoholism is still a huge problem in Russia.

[skr]

Easy enough to paint over the additions. Or just leave the squiggles and have a more interesting history for the painting. The good news is that more people have now seen it than probably in all of its combined years of existence.

[Pilgrim's Progress]

What can we say? Those craazy Ruskies, yea?

[Celtic Conservative]

It was made worse during the Brezhnev years when they discovered it was easier to hand out cheap vodka than inprove their citizen’s living standards.

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[1_Rain_Drop]

100% improvement. he did a good job.
That painting would freak me out anyway. it’s creepy a face with no eyes or mouth or nose.

[_longranger81]

Don’t know the artist’s intent, or the context, but I saw the original as a commentary on life under communism in the Soviet Union.

Or Canada.

Or Brandonland.

[pas]

On first and last day.

[1_Rain_Drop]

I agree with you.
That’s how I saw it also.

[Demiurge2]

The guard just created a multi-million dollar NFT.

[stuck_in_new_orleans]

Each day that passes we get closer to the movie “Idiocracy”

[IYAS9YAS]

It was made worse during the Brezhnev years when they discovered it was easier to hand out cheap vodka than inprove their citizen’s living standards.

And Brandon wants to give out crack pipes.

[Georgia Girl 2]

He’s got talent. 😆

[Vaduz]

LOL proof that Mr.Bean did a lot of breeding in his life time.

[Hiddigeigei]

"Ruined? I’d say it was an improvement. It’s probably worth $2 million now."
A marvelous example of "performance art!" People would come miles to discuss and admire. How avant-garde can you get? The gallery should have the security guard's signature put on the canvas and a photo of him brandishing his ballpoint pen.

[Daffynition]

Banksy artwork deliberately destroyed by Christopher Walken in BBC comedy show finale.