At an exhibition at the Yeltsin Center in Yekaterinburg, an unknown vandal defaced a painting by Malevich’s student Anna Leporskaya. The insurance value of the canvas “Three Figures” from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery is 75 million rubles.
He added eyes to the abstract faces of the two figures with a ballpoint pen, according to The Art Newspaper Russia. At the same time, the police refused to open a criminal case.
This was argued by the fact that “there are no signs of a crime under the article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation on the deliberate destruction or damage of property, since the picture has not lost its properties.”
The Department of Museums and Foreign Relations of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, due to the refusal to initiate a criminal case and in order to cancel this decision, filed a complaint with the Prosecutor General’s Office. This was reported TASS in the department’s press office.
Anna Leporskaya (1900-1982) was a postgraduate student at the department of pictorial culture of the State Institute of Artistic Culture, headed by Kazimir Malevich.
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