What would you do if a 150 year oil-painting got destroyed. 

In April of 2009, 250 works of Pablo Picasso got displayed at New York’s Metropolitan Museum.  One of Picasso’s  oil paintings called “The Actor” measures 115cm by 200cm and worth $130-million.  Last week this painting was the victim to a clumsy art student.  As the student was going through the gallery he/she accidently stumbled into the painting and tore a 6 inch gash into the painting.

Many are wondering how can you fix a one of a kind Picasso.  Well it is not easy.  Art experts have come together to discuss how the painting can be fixed.  If the painting is to be fixed there are many difficult steps that are to be taken.  These steps include having to collect all of the loose flakes of paint, reweaving the linen canvas to secure the edges of the tear, and then sticking the threads together.  Once this is completed a new piece of linen will have to be matched as closely as possible to the original and fitted in the back so it can support where the tear was.  Then the linen will have to be patched back on by wax and the tears and holes will have to be treated. 

What about the cost of this painting?  It is estimated that the cost will cost a few thousand in Canada.  So what is in store for this painting.  Will it ever be put back together,  well it probably will be.