BERLIN - Eco-activists on Sunday splashed mashed potatoes on a Claude Monet painting in a German museum, days after Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers in London was hit by tomato soup.
The work, Les Meules , hangs in the Museum Barberini in Potsdam and is part of billionaire Hasso Plattner’s collection. It is on permanent loan to the museum. The painting fetched US$111 million at an auction in 2019 – the highest sum paid for a Monet. “Does it take mashed potatoes on a painting to get you to listen? This painting is not going to be worth anything if we have to fight over food,” said one of the two activists.
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