Clumsy art student falls, rips Picasso

**SoylentGreen** · 26th January 2010, 01:56 AM

Clumsy art student falls, rips Picasso - World - NZ Herald News

Pity the poor student then who lost her balance, toppled over and fell smack into a Picasso.
Exactly what propelled the aspiring artist from her place of work into the canvas, a 6ft by 4ft work from Pablo Picasso's Rose period called The Actor, remains a mystery, particularly as it was hanging safely on a gallery wall at the time.

But it was enough in any event to leave a 15.2 centimetre tear in its bottom right-hand corner.

Kindness drove the museum to withhold the name of the perpetrator of Friday's involuntary sabotage.

The NZ$182 million painting has already been taken to the repair and restoration department and purportedly will be as good as new in time for the Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition set to open on 27 April.

Good thing they don't have a "you break it and you bought it " policy.

**tinybear** · 26th January 2010, 03:43 AM

Perhaps she was startled by the painting.

**Boy** · 5th February 2010, 06:20 PM

they should have at least put glass over it or something! and the painting looks funny

**Deadeye** · 7th February 2010, 10:02 PM

Quote by: SoylentGreen

Clumsy art student falls, rips Picasso - World - NZ Herald News

Good thing they don't have a "you break it and you bought it " policy.

I actually own a Picasso! It's a small print. I bought it in New Orleans on the day after the old guy died. PIcasso was a great artist, but really he was more of a personality and off the wall artistic creationist. He was however, a super jerk and he treated women like dish water. Pablo was not a nice man and his children are not nice people and at are constantly at oneanother's throats.

The legacy of Pablo Picasso is not a nice one. I do, however; enjoy his art and his eye. My print is the bird of peace, or somesuch. I'd guess it's worth more than the $40 I paid for it.