Neo-Impressionist Paul Signac’s great-granddaughter is fighting in court to have vandalised work removed from suburban town hall to Musée d’Orsay.
Signac’s great-granddaughter, Charlotte Liebert Hellman, filed an indictment demanding that the work be relocated promptly to the Musée d’Orsay in Paris after the piece, which hangs in the parisian suburb Montreuil staircase, was vandalised in December.
Damp paper pellets were thrown at the work, leaving marks and tears on the canvas. The wide-scale painting in the Pointillist style, entitled In the Time of Harmony,1893-95, was donated to Montreuil council by Berthe Robles, Signac’s widow, in 1938.
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