The organization Aterställ Vatmarker (“Restore the wetlands”) had claimed the action, carried out at the national museum in Stockholm.
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Ihe painting by Claude Monet, smeared with paint on Wednesday in Stockholm by two environmental activists, suffered “no damage”, announced Thursday in Paris Christophe Leribault, director of the Musée d’Orsay to which this work belongs. “The painting has not suffered any damage,” said Christophe Leribault during a press conference devoted to the redevelopment work planned in his establishment from 2025 to 2027 and which will not lead to its closure.
The work in question, titled The Artist’s Garden in Giverny (1900), is on loan from the Musée d’Orsay to the Nationalmuseum, as part of an exhibition devoted to gardens and nature. Christophe Leribault clarified that this painting had been examined by restorers from the two museums Thursday morning, by videoconference. Neither the work nor its frame, brushed with water-based paint, have been degraded, according to Christophe Leribault.
Emma & Maj, sjuksköterska respektive sjuksköterskestudent, idag i aktion på Nationalmuseum. Läget är så jäkla kritiskt. Därför satte de röda handavtryck & limmade fast sig på skyddsglaset på Monets kända tavla Konstnärens trädgård i Giverny. #återställvåtmarker pic.twitter.com/Gr0bFzqHDX
— Återställ Våtmarker (@vatmarker) June 14, 2023
Two activists arrested
The organization Återställ Våtmarker (“Restore the wetlands”) demanded this action from Agence France-Presse and broadcast a video in which we can see two women, one nurse and the other, a student nurse, painting paint the window protecting the painting red. They chant, in chorus “The climate situation is urgent! and “Our health is at risk!” “. They were arrested by the police.
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In an interview with AFP, the organization accused the Swedish government of not respecting its international commitments in terms of environmental policy. The Nationalmuseum is working to re-hang the painting in the exhibition, a spokeswoman told the daily. Dagens Nyheter.