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Rose Period Picasso Damaged by Museum Goer

January 24, 2010 by Marion Maneker

It’s surprising this doesn’t happen more often:

On Friday afternoon a woman taking an adult education class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art accidentally lost her balance and fell into “The Actor,” right, a rare Rose Period Picasso, tearing the canvas about six inches along its lower right-hand corner.

Woman Collides with a Picasso (New York Times)

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Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Met, Picasso

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