Calculated the vandal who cut the painting by Christopher wool
ARTinvestment.RU   04 мая 2018

The police have long puzzled who and why a year ago with a knife slashed the canvas with a price of $3 000 000. It turned out, a family matter

Christopher Wool is included in top-10 the most expensive living artist. His auction record — nearly $30 000 000 for a canvas with four letters RIOT — "rebellion". The painting "untitled" (2004), which spoiled in the gallery in the American aspen, estimated much cheaper, but still a tidy sum — under $3 000 000.

Case was a year ago.

On the surveillance footage gallery Opera shows that what-то crazy with strong nerves (pardon the pun) surely blocks the door (to run out faster), quickly coming to the picture Voula and causes her to have two large (but not catastrophic) cut with a knife.

for a Long time, the police puzzled over this senseless act. Who would benefit? Soon the owner of the painting, 74-летний Harold Morley, a citizen of Barbados demanded from the gallery to restore the thing and also proposed to raise its price by another $500 000 — say, now the work has received additional notoriety through criminal reports. Weird? But that's not all. The second oddity — the route of the son of the deliverer that day. It is why-то came to the States and immediately left the UK. I was digging — and is. The main suspect was Nicholas Morley, the judge issued a warrant for his arrest. The motives are not fully known. According to one version, it was the place of the father. Another — initially the fraudulent plan. Insurance press writes, but it was too harmless out cuts, and a little bit of them. I suppose that in Russia the restoration of such damage would cost in the region of 15 000 rubles. And then plus another unexpected margin of five hundred thousand dollars for "marketing"... whether the "business", or psychiatry.

the Offender is not caught.

Sources: news.artnet.com, ren.tv

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