In the Yeltsin Center, a vandal damaged a painting from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery

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Anna Leporskaya’s painting “Three Figures” from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery, which is currently visiting an exhibition at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, attracted the attention of vandals: someone drew eyes on the characters depicted on the canvas with a ballpoint pen.

The agency confirmed the fact. On the Instagram page, they reported that the work was inspected by the Tretyakov Gallery restorer the very next day and sent to Moscow, where experts would restore it. The damage will be repaired without any consequences for the artistic value of the works.

Insurers, after assessing the damage caused to the picture, reimbursed the cost of the work to the gallery. The Yeltsin Center notes that the amount of damage turned out to be insignificant, a criminal case on the fact of vandalism will not be opened.

After the incident at the exhibition, the institution revised security protocols: protective screens appeared over all the paintings in the exhibition at the Art Gallery.

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Anna Leporskaya (1900-1982) – Soviet porcelain artist, painter, graphic artist, designer and muralist. In 1923-1926, she studied and worked at the State Institute of Artistic Culture in Leningrad, in the department of the founder of Suprematism Kazimir Malevich – she was his trainee, secretary and the youngest of his students.

Leporskaya was a member of the group of pictorial-plastic realism. Before the Venice Biennale in 1923, together with Konstantin Rozhdestvensky and Nikolai Suetin, she participated in the writing of a triptych consisting of a black cross, a black circle and the Black Square, one of the most discussed and famous works in world art.

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