VANDALS AT WORK
PAINTINGS DAMAGED WITH KNIFE
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day One large painting arid five sman£ by thP P^t° f Kthe £ oll?ction nSnted by the Canterbury Society of Arts The sjx feet by four,.and has been slashed apparently with a knife, the cut beS w^t? 6 ? iddle and about 3ft eS Sa?'£?(H) c r tosurance Purposes
When a more minute examination of the gallery was made the custodian discovered instances of minor damage to J e +l ? thl r Pointings. The best known of the five, "Ena Papatai," a portrait by C. P. Goldie of a Maori celebrity was found to bear a small scratch-mark on the face. A similar knife-scratch appeared on another painting. A" third bore a knife-stab mark, a fourth carried a nondescript mark, arid the fifth a miniature, appeared to have been holed with a small. instrument like a compass.
The damage to the five last-named paintings could be fairly easily repaired, it was stated by an authority, but any repairs to the large painting would, because of the difficulty entailed, be costly.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1944, Page 6
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177VANDALS AT WORK Evening Post, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 135, 5 December 1944, Page 6
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