Child damages painting worth up to €50m in Netherlands

Aad Hoogendoorn/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 'Art handlers' from Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen install Rothko's Grey, Orange on Maroon, No.8 (1960), a painting including a large black rectangle and a small orange rectangle on a maroon backdrop, in the Stedelijk Museum SchiedamAad Hoogendoorn/Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen

A child has damaged a painting worth millions of pounds by the American artist Mark Rothko at a museum in Rotterdam.

A spokesperson for the Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen said it was considering the “next steps” for the treatment of Rothko’s Grey,…

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