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DENVER (Reuters) - A 36-year-old woman was accused of causing $10,000 worth of damage to a painting by the late abstract expressionist artist Clyfford Still, a work valued at more than $30 million, authorities said on Wednesday.
A police report said Carmen Tisch punched and scratched the painting, an oil-on-canvas called "1957-J no.2", at the recently opened Clyfford Still museum in Denver and pulled her pants down to slide her buttocks against it.
Tisch was charged with felony criminal mischief on Wednesday and has been held on a $20,000 bond since the incident in late December, said Lynn Kimbrough, spokeswoman for the Denver District Attorney's Office.
Kimbrough said Tisch urinated after she rubbed up against the canvas, but whether urine got on the painting was still under investigation, she said.
Born in North Dakota in 1904, Still was considered one of the most influential of the American post-World War Two abstract expressionist artists, although he was not as well known as others such as Jackson Pollock.
http://news.yahoo.com/colorado-woman-accused-damaging-30-million-painting-051057896.html
HappyMe
(20,277 posts)Good grief.
progressoid
(49,824 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)how could they tell?
progressoid
(49,824 posts)petronius
(26,580 posts)someone would pay $30 million for it...
Silly critic should have taken the time to get famous before the stunt.
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)unionworks
(3,574 posts)So why. Am I laughing? :rotf:
provis99
(13,062 posts)heck, pissing on it probably improved it.
sakabatou
(42,082 posts)This is the painting in question:
And yes, it's hideous.
HopeHoops
(47,675 posts)rug
(82,333 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)incontinent 'art critic' peed on the floor by the painting. She scratched the painting up.
rug
(82,333 posts)HappyMe
(20,277 posts)But that would have upped the painting damage $$$$.