Be careful with artworks, one little slip can loss Millions of Pounds.
From Overzealous Cleaners to Idiocy, Here are 5 Priceless Artworks Ruined by Accidents.
'The Actor'
Picasso's 'The Actor', a $122,323,000 piece, was torn by a woman when she lost her balance and crashed into the artwork in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
It was repaired and glazed 4 months after the accident.
'When it starts dripping from the ceiling'
Modern art piece 'When it starts dripping from the ceiling' , worth $1,054,251 was damaged by a cleaner in Germany.
Thought a layer of paint on the artwork was grime that needed a scrub, the cleaner clean it off.
The damage on the artwork was irretrievable.
Lucian Freud Painting
A Lucian Freud painting worth $240,000 was at an auction house in London where it was going up for sale.
The painting inside a wooden crate was mistaken for being rubbish and empty, it was dumped in a garbage crusher and lost to a landfill.
The painting was on its way to an incinerator when they realized its missing.
19th Century Ecce Homo
Cecilia Gimenez, an 80-year-old Spanish painter tried to restore a 19th Century Ecce Homo.
Her disastrous attempt on restoring the artwork is dubbed to be the Worst Restoration in History.
It soon became a meme.
Paleolithic Cave Paintings
Protestant youth group in France
decided to clean up graffiti in 1992.
Instead they rubbed out a
15,000-year-old Priceless Paleolithic cave paintings.
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