The attempt is failed.
The Musée d'Orsay has filed a complaint for
"attempt to degrade a work"
after preventing a young woman from throwing soup on a painting on Thursday, he announced to AFP on Sunday, confirming information that has come to light. Sunday by
Le Parisien
.
"
Following the filing of a complaint for acts qualified as attempted degradation filed by the Musée d'Orsay, an investigation was opened
" and entrusted to the police station of the 7th arrondissement, the Paris prosecutor's office told AFP. .
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If the museum does not wish to communicate on the identity of the painting in question,
Le Parisien
affirms that the young woman first intended to stick her face on the
Self-portrait in Saint-Rémy
by Vincent Van Gogh.
Prevented from doing so, the activist would have tried to throw soup on a nearby canvas by Paul Gauguin.
Shock movement for the climate
This action comes on the heels of other similar acts in recent weeks in Europe, while voices from the art world condemn, from Paris to New York, these acts of "
vandalism
".
Environmental activists thus threw tomato soup on the glass plate protecting Van Gogh's
Sunflowers
at the National Gallery in London and others, in Germany, smeared mashed potatoes on the glass protecting
Les Meules
, a painting by Claude Monet.
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The Girl with a Pearl Earring,
a masterpiece by Johannes Vermeer, was returned to its place on Friday in a Dutch museum after being targeted by three activists from the Just Stop Oil collective last Thursday, without being damaged.
France is not
“sheltered one day that a frenzied activist attacks an
unprotected painting”, had warned last Tuesday the Minister of Culture Rima Abdul Malak, asking “
all national museums to redouble their vigilance
".
The deputy Europe Ecology - The Greens Sandrine Rousseau had on the other hand supported, on October 15, these initiatives punch, by praising
"the action of these young people (...) hyper interesting because very disturbing".