[CPProt.net] Austria± Lichtenstein painting slashed at museum

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Lichtenstein painting slashed at museum 

    September 04 2005 at 12:45PM  
 
Bregenz, Austria - A visitor to an Austrian museum pulled a pocket knife
from her purse and repeatedly slashed a painting by US artist Roy
Lichtenstein painting worth millions of euros, police said.

The woman, a 35-year-old Munich, Germany, resident, was visiting the
Kunsthaus Bregenz exhibit "Roy Lichtenstein - Classic of the New" on
Saturday afternoon when she vandalised the painting Nudes in Mirror. 

She made four cuts in the painting, each measuring about 30cm, police said
in a statement late on Saturday.

Other museum visitors and museum guards held the woman until she could be
taken to the police station. The woman, who would be examined by a court
psychiatrist, offered no explanation for her behavior, police said. -
Sapa-AP