It is unclear how much the painting is worth, but it was insured with the Alfa insurance company for RUB 74.9 million (GBP 740,000). The damage to the painting has been estimated at RUB 250,000 (GBP 2,470). In addition to the Tretyakov Gallery, her works are widely represented in the collection of the Russian Museum. She is known primarily as a master of artistic porcelain. 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. The damage to the painting and cost of restoration has been estimated at £2,470 (RUB 250,000). The painting is being restored, the damage, according to the restoration expert at State Tretyakov Gallery, can be eliminated without any long-term damage to the artwork. Police have now opened an investigation for vandalism, with comes with a £395 (74.9 million Russian Rubles) dine 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. Two visitors enjoying an art exhibition called 'The World as Non-Objectivity. 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. “The painting is being restored, the damage, according to the expert, can be eliminated without consequences for the work of art.On his first day on the job, a security guard drew two pairs of eyes with a ballpoint pen onto artist Anna Leporskaya's 'Three Figures' painting (pictured) during an abstract art exhibition in Yekaterinburg, western Russia /K5LFgM7uwP “The work was inspected by the restorer of the State Tretyakov Gallery the very next day and sent to Moscow. “The damage was done with a ballpoint pen. The gallery issued a statement on the vandalism earlier this week.Ī spokesperson said: “We inform you that during the investigation, the person who painted the eyes on the figures in the painting by Anna Leporskaya was identified - this is an employee of a private security organization that carries out security activities of the Yeltsin Center. The original artist Leporskaya passed away in 1982 aged 82, and worked with a number of avant-garde artists in her lifetime. The site added that the eyes were first spotted in December last year by visitors to the gallery, and claimed that the police weren’t interested in prosecuting the case as the cost of the damage was ‘insignificant’. According to the Art Newspaper Russia website, said it was fortunate the vandal didn’t apply too much pressure to the additions.

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