From the British newspaper The Independent Sophie Morris reports on accidents that occurred with some works of art

world of art has recently roused two very sad news. In early July, the New York Metropolitan Museum Metropolitan Museum of fell to the floor and crashed relief «The Holy Archangel Michael» Wizard era Renaissance Andrea della Robbie (Andrea della Robbia) . A little later at the Royal Academy in London, curated by the renowned artist Tracey Emin (Tracey Emin), visitor accidentally broke ceramic sculpture Echeverría Fernández, Tatiana (Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez). From the newspaper The Independent Sophie Morris (Sophie Morris) called the most famous still 9 «accidents» art.

Cristo and Zhann-Claude. «Surrounded Islands. Drawing »

In 1983, the Bulgarian artist Christo (Christo) and his wife Zhann-Claude (Jeanne-Claude) conducted one of its most ambitious projects. They «okaymili» pink cloth 11 artificial islands near Miami. The draft was prepared three years, it was a lot of preliminary drawings, drawings and collages. One of these drawings was badly damaged in the transport of forklift truck. Now work is in the office of insurance company Axa Art, collaborating with the artist. Christo prefers not to sell spoiled work.

Pablo Picasso. «Dream»

In 2006, the owner of the many casinos in Las Vegas, Steve Wynne (Steve Wynn) met to sell one of the principal treasures of his collection of works of art - «Dream» Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso). Wanted to buy a picture of another American billionaire, Steve Cohen (Steve Cohen). The parties agreed to the transaction amount 139 million dollars. And «Dream» would become one of the most expensive in the history of the art, if not for the negligence of its owner. By Uinnu guests came, and he decided to show his Picasso hanging on the wall in the office next to the paintings of Henri Matisse (Henri Matisse) and Pierre-Auguste Renoir (Pierre-Auguste Renoir). Talking to the guests, too billionaire to gesticulate and accidentally ... protknul picture «Dream» elbow. The thing is that Wynne suffered pigmentary retinal dystrophy, causing very bad saw. Of course, the picture of Picasso immediately sacrificed for the restoration. But after work «cured», billionaire refused to sell it. According to his wife Uinna, accident - a sign of destiny. Do not want to «Dream» Uinna leave the room and become the most expensive painting.

Craig Kaufman. «Terrain»

In 2006, the Pompidou Center in Paris was a great exhibition «Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of the capital of the world of art». Works for the exhibition provided the most eminent American art dealers and collectors. Of course, they hoped that the works of art return home intact. Just before the opening of the exhibition from the wall collapsed minimalist piece by Peter Alexander (Peter Alexander) - a black bar measuring 2,44 m x 12,7 cm A relief without the name of another artist, Craig Kaufman (Craig Kauffman), soon suffered the same fate. Incidentally, in Los Angeles the product moved three strong earthquakes!

Chinese vases of the era of the Qing Dynasty

ungainly visitor from Cambridge Museum Fittsuilyama stepped on the lace and sloping down the stairs, carried away a 300-year-old Qing Dynasty vases. But Chinese porcelain XVII century, is considered one of the major treasures of the museum! Employees of two and a half days to collect pieces of razletevshihsya matchwood exhibits. Restoration of exquisite porcelain (the largest of which weighs, among other things, 45 kg) was half a year. Classified visitor was detained, but, realizing that the evil intent that he has not been released. Now the vase again exhibited in the museum Fittsuilyama.

piece of auto art

«auto art» - a term introduced into circulation in the early 1960's the artist Gustav Mettsgerom (Gustav Metzger). In 1960, introduced the audience Mettsger transparent plastic bag, full of debris, and declared that the package - the symbol «extremity» Art. In 2004, work Mettsgera to recreate a demonstration in London Tate Modern Gallery. One of the cleaners are not very familiar with the history of art, took her for vsamdelishny bag with garbage and threw vosvoyasi. Mettsger immediately gave the museum an identical product ...

Rachel Uaytred. «Home»

In autumn 1993, a well-known British artist Rachel Uaytred (Rachel Whiteread) has established a concrete sculpture ... Victorian home. In XIX century in London's East End had a lot of these houses, but after the war, most of them were demolished. Sculpture Uaytred is a concrete cast of the interior of the last of such homes. Through this work Uaytred received a prestigious award named J. M. W. Turner (Turner Prize). But the sculpture is not like the inhabitants of the East End, and one year later «Home» demolished.

Damien Hurst. Exhibition of Painting-By-Numbers

In 2001, Damien Hurst (Damien Hirst) has decided to make his exhibition Painting-By-Numbers is an original way. He scattered empty beer bottles, ashtrays, and banks are crowded with paint on the gallery floor, giving it a kind of workshop littery artist. «A creative mess» lasted until the arrival of cleaner. He thought «creative» Hurst ordinary garbage, threw everything in the scrap-heap. Had «decorate» gallery again. But by the artist himself is not upset: it is called the incident very funny.

Venus Milosskaya

The statue of Venus Milosskoy, located in the Paris Louvre, visitors have long admired for its beauty, despite the fact that it did not have two hands. Venus is in 1820 Greek farmer from the island of Milos. It was split into two parts, in her left hand was an apple. French sailors who were then on the island, quickly «saw» artistic and historical value of the sculpture and voznamerilis bring her home. When Venus dragged to the ship, fighting flared up, resulting in a Venus lost both hands. Tired sailors refused to go back and look repelled limbs. So Venus Milosskaya proved without hands.

Banksy. Criminal fiction

In the past year, one of the works of famous British street artist called Banksy was sold at Sotheby's auction for 102 thousand pounds sterling. The most famous paintings was «Criminal fiction» - a huge wall painting in London's East End, a representation of a scene from the famous movie of Quentin Tarantino (Quentin Tarantino), where John Travolta (John Travolta) and Samuel L. Jackson (Samuel L. Jackson) tselyatsya to his enemies. However, instead of «guns» Banksy painted «uorholovskie» bananas. This is an interesting piece of street art was very popular with Londoners and tourists, many wanted to be photographed with him. But the city felt the work of Banksy «vandalism» and ordered her paint. Ballyhoo around «Criminal reading» affected the prices of works by the artist. Shortly after the destruction of the wall murals painting Banksy «space girl and bird» was sold at Bonhams auction for 288 thousand pounds, in 20 (!) Times higher than estimeyt. And by October 2007, his fans were pleased with another news: Brad Pitt (Brad Pitt) and Angelina Jolie (Angelina Jolie) spent at work «artist-partisan» million pounds.

list of injured or destroyed works of art could continue indefinitely. They suffer when the artist allows for technological failures (like, say, «The Last Supper» Leonardo da Vinci and many canvases AI Kuindzhi), killed by bombing and fires of war, etc. A special section of grief in the list focuses on the work affected from the barbarians - in the first place «Dan» Rembrandt, louse several knife attacks and poured acid.

But do not burn the manuscript, and do not disappear without trace works of art. Some of the loss becomes a legend, carrying the admiration of viewers. Others, retrievable, often leave behind a historical anecdote. Whether it is a tragedy, or curious, but remains the most important - the memory.

Material prepared Yulia Maksimova

Sources: www.independent . co.uk , artinvestment.ru