French woman could face fine for artwork kiss
Published on: 10-Oct-2007
A French woman could face a fine after she kissed an artwork at an exhibition in Avignon, France.Rindy Sam, also an artist, planted a smacker on a painting by American artist Cy Twombly - leaving a huge red lipstick mark on the piece.
Explaining her actions, the 30-year-old said: "I just gave it a kiss.
"It was an act of love; when I kissed it, I wasn't thinking. I thought the artist would understand."
The all-white painting is worth nearly $3 million (£1.5 million) and the prosecution has urged the court to impose a fine of £3,150 on the 'vandal'.
Meanwhile, also in France, police are hoping to find a group of vandals who punched a hole in a Claude Monet masterpiece.
A small group of youths broke into the Orsay Museum on Paris's Left Bank and punctured a ten centimere hole in the Le Pont d'Argenteuil artwork.
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