A child caused damage to a multi -million -euro -worth of American artist Mark Rothko in Museum to Rotterdam.
A spokesman for the “Boijmans Van Beuningen” Museum in Rotterdam said that the “next steps” were being examined to restore Rothko’s work “Gray, orange in Vyssinni, No. 8».
The damage was done at a “moment of carelessness”, a Museum spokesman at the Dutch media Algemeen Dagblad (AD) last week.
In his statements to the BBC he clarified that the damage is “superficial”, adding: “Small scratches are visible in the colorful color layer at the bottom of the table».
The “abstract” table is estimated to be worth up to 50 million eurosaccording to ad.
“The view of maintenance experts in the Netherlands and abroad has been asked. We are currently investigating the next steps to process the table, “the Museum spokesman told the BBC.
«We expect the project to be able to expose again in the future“, He added.
The “abstract” painting of 1960, which is 2.90 meters high and 2.80 meters wide was a central exhibit of the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam – although it was temporarily transferred to “Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen”, storage next to the museum, open to the public. The museum is currently closed for large -scale renovation.
The Dutch art collector Bert Crick estimated three years ago that the table could be sold between 40 and 50m euros, according to the Dutch news website Algemeen Dagblad.
THE Roths He was born in Latvia in 1903, but moved to America when he was a child.
The artist, who died in 1970, was best known for his paintings in “color field“And many of his works have been sold for tens of millions of euros.
Rothko’s 1958 work, “Black in sliced»Was deliberately vandalized at the London Tate Modern Gallery in October 2012.