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The Star
28-06-2025
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- The Star
Tourist taking a selfie damages painting in Italy's Uffizi Gallery
The Uffizi Gallery management said that the damage to the Baroque-era painting is minor, however, and can be repaired. The painting was immediately removed for restoration. Photo: AP A visitor to the Uffizi Gallery in Florence damaged a priceless oil painting while trying to take a selfie, the museum revealed on Saturday. The unidentified tourist leaned against the Baroque portrait Portrait of Ferdinando de' Medici, Grand Prince Of Tuscany by Anton Domenico Gabbiani to take a photo - until the canvas gave way. Italian broadcaster TG1 posted a video on X, which shows the painting's canvas tearing under the man's weight. The painting is considered one of the highlights of the current exhibition. The man was identified by museum staff and reported to the police. A photo in the local newspaper Corriere Fiorentino shows a tear in the canvas. An unidentified tourist leaned on Anton Domenico Gabbiani's 'Portrait Of Ferdinando de' Medici' for a photo - until the canvas gave way. Photo: YouTube/Screenshot The museum management said that the damage is minor, however, and can be repaired. The painting was immediately removed for restoration. Museum director Simone Verde expressed his outrage to the Italian news agency ANSA. He said the problem of visitors coming to museums to take selfies or memes for social networks was getting out of hand. "We will establish clear rules to prevent behaviour that is incompatible with the purpose of our institutions and respect for cultural heritage," Verde asserted. This is not the first time that art has fallen victim to selfies. Just recently, two visitors to the Palazzo Maffei in Verona destroyed a "Van Gogh chair" by artist Nicola Bolla, which was encrusted with Swarovski crystals. The couple had apparently discovered the perfect photo opportunity - they sat down on the glittering sculpture, which then broke, as can be seen on a surveillance video from the museum. - dpa
The Independent
24-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Independent
‘Masterful' painting by Scottish colourist to go under hammer for first time
A 'masterful' painting by Scottish colourist Samuel John Peploe which once hung in his patron's drawing room is to be auctioned for the first time. Roses In A Green Jug will go under the hammer in the Scottish art sale at Bonhams, Edinburgh, next month, with an estimate of £250,000-£350,000. Paintings by fellow Scottish colourist Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell and by the late Jack Vettriano will also feature in the sale on May 21. Peploe once characterised his career as a search for the perfect still life, and was influenced by his time in Paris from 1910-12 where he studied the work of Post-Impressionist masters. Major Ion R Harrison, a Scottish shipping magnate, first encountered Peploe's work at an exhibition in Glasgow in the 1920s and soon became a close friend and patron of the painter and the Scottish colourists. May Matthews, managing director of Bonhams Scotland, said: 'Peploe's Roses In A Green Jug is a masterful execution of composition and colour, taking inspiration from Paul Cezanne and French Post-Impressionism, while maintaining the artist's distinctive individual style. 'Peploe's still lifes were meticulously planned and executed, creating the dialogue between object and space for which he and his fellow colourists were renowned. 'The work has a remarkable provenance, having once hung in the drawing room of Croft House owned by Ion R Harrison, a notable patron of the Scottish colourists. 'We expect significant interest for this rare and exciting work offered at auction for the very first time.' Roses In A Green Jug can be seen hanging in the background of Cadell's Portrait Of Mrs Ion R Harrison of 1932. Six works by Vettriano, who died earlier this year, will also go under the hammer. They include Pendine Beach (Study), which was painted in 1996, and has an estimate of £20,000-£30,000. The painting once hung in the late Sir Terence Conran's Bluebird restaurant in London, after he bought the picture in 1996, Bonhams said. Spanish Candlestick by the late Anne Redpath will also feature in the auction, with an estimate of £18,000-£25,000. A selection of landscapes of the island of Iona will also be sold, including Peploe's paintings of The White Strand, Iona, with an estimate of £70,000-£100,000, and Eilean Annraidh from Iona, which is expected to fetch £50,000-£70,000. Paintings of Iona by Cadell and John Maclauchlan will also be auctioned.
