A WOMAN who punched and
scratched her buttocks against a US$30mil (RM96mil) painting at the Clyfford
Still Museum in the US has been sentenced to two years of probation.
Carmen Tisch, 37, was also
required to undergo mental health treatment and receive help for alcohol
dependency as a condition of her sentence.
She pleaded guilty to felony
criminal mischief for striking at and leaning against the oil-on-canvas
painting “1957-J No. 2” by Clyfford Still.
After causing an estimated
US$10,000 (RM31,930) worth of damage to the painting, an intoxicated Tisch then
pulled down her pants, rubbed her buttocks against the painting and urinated on
the museum floor, prosecutors said.
The North Dakota-born Still
(1904 to 1980) was one of the most influential post-World War Two American
abstract expressionist artists, but he was not as famous as contemporaries such
as Jackson Pollock.
Four of his works were
auctioned by Sotheby’s for US$114mil (RM364mil) to endow the museum, which
opened in late 2011.
Guess she never attended art
appreciation class. (Reuters)
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