Pictured: ‘Bored’ security guard who ruined £740,000 painting by drawing eyes on it – as he reveals he ‘didn’t like the pictures’ and was egged on to deface the art by teenage girls – DailyMail February 11, 2022

I saw this today on DailyMail – Pictured: ‘Bored’ security guard who ruined £740,000 painting by drawing eyes on it – as he reveals he ‘didn’t like the pictures’ and was egged on to deface the art by teenage girls: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10502763/Pictured-Bored-security-guard-ruined-740-000-painting-drawing-eyes-it.html. Longer article.

By WILL STEWART and RACHAEL BUNYAN FOR MAILONLINE February 11, 2022

The identity of the ‘bored’ security guard who vandalised a £740,000 painting in Russia has been unmasked as a war hero decorated for military courage.

Alexander Vasiliev, 63, used a pen to doodle on the eyes on the blank faces of figures in Anna Leporskaya’s classic work Three Figures (1932-34), which was on display at Yekaterinburg’s Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre.

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