It was revealed that the person who drew eyes with a ballpoint pen on a painting worth 1 million dollars exhibited in an art gallery in Russia was a security guard. It was announced that the material value of the painting was approximately 75 million rubles ($ 1 million), and the damage to the painting was 250 thousand rubles ($ 3,350), and the painting was handed over to experts to be restored.
‘Young girls provoked me’
On the other hand, security officer Alexander Vasiliev, who spoke for the first time about the tragicomic event, said, “I tried not to look at the paintings. I watched how people reacted and then I heard 16-17 year old girls say ‘why don’t these have mouths and eyes?’ The girls in the group said ‘you work here, draw eyes on them’. They gave me a pencil and I drew the eyes. I saw people passing by smiling. I didn’t know the value of the table. I am an idiot. The schoolgirls visiting the gallery provoked me. But I did not like the painting very much,” he said.
