New York woman falls, rips Picasso painting !!!
(January 28, 2010)New York woman falls, rips Picasso painting
A painting by Pablo Picasso significant was damaged after a woman participating art classes lost balance and fell in "The Actor" and bread, said the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The unusually large canvas, which measures 77.25 by 45.38 inches, just a broken upright about six inches in the lower right corner in the accident on Friday. The museum, located on the eastern edge of Central Park in New York, gave no information about why the woman fell.
But The Met said that the damage did not affect the "focal point for the composition" and shall be repaired in the coming weeks before a major Picasso retrospective of some 250 works in the museum's opening on 27 April. Repair work must be "discreet" he added.
Painted in the winter of 1904-1905, the work comes from Picasso's Rose Period criticism when the artist spent the pessimistic tone of his blue period to the warmer, more romantic colors. The term also refers to Picasso after covering abstraction with his cubist style.
Donated to the Met by car heiress Thelma Chrysler Foy in 1952, "The Actor" features an acrobat on strike a dramatic pose to an abstract background. The work was painted on a canvas that contains a painting is already using.
"The Actor" was donated to the Met in 1952 by art patron Thelma Chrysler Foy, the elder daughter of auto magnate Walter P. Chrysler. The museum said it has been included in many major exhibitions of Picasso's works both in the United States and in Europe.
In 2006, another Picasso accidentally was damaged during a private showing of the artist's "Le Reve." The artwork's owner, casino mogul Steve Wynn, was showing the work -- a portrait of Picasso's mistress, Marie-Therese Walter -- to a group of friends in Las Vegas when he inadvertently poked a thumb-size hole in the canvas with his elbow.
The accident occurred just after Mr. Wynn had negotiated a deal to sell the painting for $139 million.
