Artist Anna Leporskaya had her “Three Figures” painted in an art gallery located in Yekaterinburg, Russia. The security guard working at the Yeltsin Center was accused of drawing eyes on the painting's face. In addition, this painting is valued at US$ 1 million, which corresponds to more or less R$ 5 million in local currency.
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pen doodles
Two museum visitors noticed that there was something different about the painting and noticed the pen eyes. Soon after, these people notified the museum of what they saw, and then the security guard suffered a dismissal.
The situation was registered in December of last year, but, at first, the internal administration would have refused to collaborate with the case and even defended what happened, saying that the damage to the painting had been irrelevant. With this difficulty, the investigation can only start in February of this year and, if the case is upheld, the official may receive a fine and also be imprisoned for up to three months.
With that, through a statement that was posted on February 7, the executive director of institution, Alexander Drozdov, stated that the gallery employee was a service provider for a company particular. In addition, the government has the belief that the employee suffered a moment of compromised sanity to do what he did.
Work recovery
To recover what was vandalized, it will take an investment of 250,000 rubles – around 17,000 reais. So the work was removed from the site and taken to the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow to be restored.
Furthermore, it was because of this situation that the works on display at the Yeltsin Center now have protective screens in front, so that no one can come into direct contact with them.
The painting is composed of three characters who do not have their faces painted and, moreover, this great work of art was made in the period from 1932 to 1934. In this situation that occurred in the Russian gallery, the security guard drew small circles that would indicate people's eyes.