Picasso The Actor Painting Ripped By Visitor's Fall At The Met

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One of Picasso's paintings, The Actor, sustained damage this weekend when a visitor accidently fell into the painting. A woman who was taking an art class at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York stumbled into the Picasso painting and caused a six inch, vertical tear. Picasso's The Actor depicts an acrobat in a dramatic pose amidst an abstract background. The painting was completed on top of another on the same 1.8m x 1.2 m canvas. The Actor features warmer tones and colours after his blue period.

Museum reps for the met report that the tear in the lower right-hand corner has not seriously affected the overall composition of the painting or its focal point. Nevertheless, Picasso's The Actor will head in for repairs before the "Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Exhibition" to take place later in the year. The exhibition is set to open on April 17, 2010 and will feature up to 250 of Picasso's works.