Police have now opened an investigation for vandalism, with comes with a £395 fine and a one-year correctional labour sentence. The work was then sent to the Moscow gallery the next day and was inspected by an art restorer. The identity of the suspect has only been revealed now as a security guard by the Yeltsin Centre, although they did not name the worker. The painting, which was on loan from the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, was damaged by the security guard after he is said to have became bored on his first day. 'The Birth of a New Art’ at the Yeltsin Center spotted the extra details to two of the three figures on the 1930s painting on December 7 last year, reports the Art Newspaper. The painting was defaced by a security guard, who has not been named but is believed to be 60-years-old, who worked for a private security company, the Yeltsin Center said in a statement. On his first day on the job, the security guard had drawn two pairs of eyes with a ballpoint pen onto artist Anna Leporskaya’s ‘Three Figures’ (1932–1934) painting during an abstract art exhibition at the Yeltsin Center in the city of Yekaterinburg, western Russia. He wrote that “taking into account the circumstances of the criminal case, the damage inflicted to the painting Three Figures” and “the high level of public attention in connection with the incident,” the museum considered closing the case “via reconciliation” but ultimately decided that it “does not regard it as possible to take such an appeal to the magistrate.Faceless painting worth £750k ruined after 'bored' security guard draws eyes on itĪ painting worth £740,000 has been destroyed after a ‘bored’ security guard drew eyes on faceless figures depicted in the artwork at a Russian gallery. On August 15, Vasiliev’s lawyer, Aleskei Bushmakov, shared a letter on his Facebook page that he sent to Zelfira Tregulova, the general director of the Tretyakov Gallery. The State Tretyakov has refused to petition for the charges against Vasiliev to be dropped. In an interview with Russian news site E1, he said he believed the 20th-century work by Leporskaya was a “children’s drawing” and claimed he was goaded by teenagers to deface it. He was also struggling mentally with the death of his wife and the murder of his son. Vasiliev’s life story has also emerged: he is a decorated veteran of the Afghan and Chechen wars, in which he suffered physical and physiological injuries. The Yeltsin Center filed a complaint with the police, but Yekaterinburg’s ministry of internal affairs at first declined to press charges against Vasiliev, as the damage was considered “ insignificant.” The painting was restored and has since been returned to the State Tretyakov. Silver Sarcophagus of Saint Alexander Nevsky Returned by Hermitage to the Russian Orthodox Church
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