Children’s Painting Losses up to 50 million euros in the Netherlands

American artist Mark Rotko at the Rotterdam Museum damaged the picture worth millions.

A press secretary of the Boijmans Museum Van Beuningen said he was considering “the following steps” for the treatment of gray orange, orange orange on Maroon, No. 8.

Last week, the damage happened during the “unforgettable moment”.

The museum’s press -secretary told the BBC that the damage was “superficial”, adding: “The little scratches are visible in the sloppy paint layer at the bottom of the picture.”

The abstract picture is estimated at 50 million euros (£ 42.5 million), reports newspaper advertising.

“An examination for protection has been launched in the Netherlands and abroad. We are currently studying the following steps to treat the painting,” said the BBC press secretary.

“We expect that in the future the work will be able to show,” they added.

Sophie Makalon, the fine art management manager, stated that “modern sloppy” paintings such as gray, orange, orange, orange orange, No. 8, “especially sensitive to damage”.

This is “due to the combination of their complex modern materials, the lack of a traditional layer of covering and intensity of flat colored fields, which cause even the smallest areas of damage instantly,” she said.

“In this case, scratches of the upper layers of paint can have a significant impact on the experience of viewing the work,” said Ms Makalone.

The picture of the overall hung in the museum depot – a public repository near the main museum – within the exhibition, which reflects the choice of “public favorites” from the gallery collection.

Johnny Helm, Marketing Manager in the Art Restoration Pothden & Smith restoration service, said the incident had consequences for UK institutions such as the V&A East and the British Museum that view the possibility of “opening things that would otherwise be covered in archives.”

“How will this event affect other UK institutions that open their archives equally?” said Mr. Helm.

Restoration of the painting of the overall is a difficult task because “the mixture of pigments and resin and the overalls was quite complicated,” Mr. Helm said.

He said the fact that the picture is non -food – it means that it is “open to the environment” – will be an additional problem for conservatives.

Conservatives working to restore the picture are now likely to be in the process of documenting the degree of damage and research of “historical successful procedures” of the oral paintings.

“It seems that Rothko was lucky – this is not the first damaged overall we heard,” Mr. Helm said.

Rotko’s work in 1958, Black on the dark -board, intentionally vanded by Wlodzimierz contract In the London Gallery Tate Modern in October 2012.

Uhnunius was sent to prison for two years, after which he apologized for his actions.

During the trial, lawyer Gregory McKinley said that the cost of repairing the work would be about 200,000 pounds. It took the conservatives 18 months to repair the picture.

Rachel Mirtle, Head of the Department and Fine Arts at the Aon insurance company, said that the visual art insurance policy is usually covered by “all risks associated with physical loss and damage to works of art, including casual damage caused by children or visitors, albeit with certain exceptions.”

She said that in the damage of the works of art, the gallery insurer would appoint a specialized adjustr of the visual art losses for visiting the museum.

Usually, the regulator of losses “considers the damage to the works of art, studies any CCTV personnel to determine the exact cause of loss and evaluates the options for preservation,” said Mrs. Mirtle.

The museum does not comment on who will be responsible for the damage to the 1960 painting, which the gallery was reported in the 1970s.

The Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum had previously brought the accounts of visitors who had damaged the work of art.

In 2011, the museum asked for an unsuspecting tourist who joined the art tree from the Wim T. Schippers peanut oil, called Pindakaasvloer, to pay for the repair of work.

Sharon Cohen, Museum Press at the time was quoted by AD, which is involved: “This is a common procedure for people to pay when they damage the art.”

The pattern of the oral is described by the museum as an example of color painting, a term used to describe art characterized by large blocks of flat, solid, located on the canvas.

Gray, orange, orange orange, painting # 8 is one of several works of contemporary art that have been damaged in the Netherlands in recent years.

In November 2024, several screen prints of the American variety artist Andy Warhol were damaged by a thief during an attempt to rob MPV art gallery in the city of Aistemvi.

In another incident, The Dutch Town Hall confessed that it was “most likely” thrown out of 46 works by accident – Including Andy Warhol the press of the former Dutch Queen – during the repair work last year.

Museums pursue various politicians when responding to children.

In August last year, A four-year-old boy accidentally smashed a 3500-year-old jar into Heach Museum in Israel.

At the time, the employee of the Heach Museum Likha Laszlo told the BBC that the museum would not refer to the incident “with weight” because “the jar was accidentally damaged by a small child.”

The family was invited back to an exhibition with their family for an organized tour shortly after the incident occurred.