It was damaged during an exhibition called ‘The World as Non-Objectivity. The painting, called ‘Three Figures’ (1932-1934) from the Tretyakov Gallery collection, is currently being worked on by experts in a bid to restore it to its former glory. The employee, who has not been named, but who is said to be 60 years old, has reportedly already been fired. The incident reportedly took place on 7th December 2021, when the bored security guard on his first day on the job allegedly drew eyes with a ballpoint pen on the faces of two of the three figures depicted in the painting, but the identity of the suspect has only been reported now. A vandal added eyes to non-objective figures in Anna Leporskaya’s painting at an exhibition at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, Russia in December 2021. The painting was allegedly defaced by a security guard from a private security company. ![]() The painting, which was created by Anna Leporskaya, a student of Russian avant-garde artist Kazimir Malevich, was defaced at the Yeltsin Centre, which is located in the city of Yekaterinburg in the Sverdlovsk Oblast region in west-central Russia. Besides the Tretyakov, her work is held in the Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied, and Folk Arts in Moscow and the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg.A valuable modern art painting has been destroyed after a bored security guard on his first day of work drew eyes on the faceless figures depicted in it. Best known for her work in porcelain, she created alongside other notable avant-garde artists Nikolai Suetin and Lev Yudin. Leporskaya, who died in 1982, was a student of the famous Russian Suprematist Kazimir Malevich. Protective screens have since been installed by the centre on all remaining works in the exhibition. The painting has now been returned to the State Tretyakov. It will be paid by the private insurers AlfaStrakhovanie, which provided the initial valuation of the work. The Tretyakov estimates restoration costs at RUB 250,000 (£2,500), a fraction of the insurance cost. "The ink has slightly penetrated into the paint layer, since the titanium white used to paint the faces is not covered with varnish," but the marks were "made lightly", wrote Ivan Petrov in his inital report for TAN Russia. However, damage to the work is easily reversible. He faces a fine of up to RUB 74.9m (£738,000)-the amount the painting was insured for-and up to one year of correctional labour or up to three months in prison, according to The Times. The guard has been fired and was last week detained by police on criminal vandalism charges. “His motives are still unknown but the administration believes it was some kind of a lapse in sanity,” she said. ![]() The exhibition's curator, Anna Reshetkina, said the painting was damaged by a 60-year-old guard “with a Yeltsin Centre-branded pen” and that he did so on his first day at work. ![]() This week, following a police investigation, it has emerged that the vandal was a security guard employed by a private company, the Yeltsin Centre's executive director Alexander Drozdov confirmed in a statement. Anna Leporskaya's Three Figures (1932–1934) prior to its defacement.
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