Well, that’s one way to make your mark in the art world… On the first day of his new job working at the Boris Yeltsin Presidential Centre in Yekaterinburg, a Russian security guard caused quite the scene: according to reports, he grew so bored that he doodled on a $1 million painting!
The victim was Anna Leporskaya‘s abstract piece, Three Figures (see here). Painted sometime in the early 1930s, the artwork features three vaguely humanoid figures without any facial features.
Leporskaya, who passed away in 1982, was a student of suprematism — an avant-garde school of thought that pure artistic feeling is “supreme” over realistic, objective depictions of subjects.
However, the unnamed security guard apparently had a different vision as he grabbed one of the Yeltsin Center’s own branded ballpoint pens and gave two of the three figures pairs of eyes.
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