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Turning Your Christopher Wool Into A Lucio Fontana

May 3, 2018

It seems that Nicholas Morley, son of art collector Harold Morley, decided to alter the look and value of one of his father’s paintings.  Harold consigned a Christopher Wool painting (valued at $2.95M) to Opera Gallery in Aspen, Colorado.  On May 1, Nicholas flew from the UK to Colorado, entered the gallery, and slashed his father’s painting with a razor.  The motive is not yet known … maybe he thought he would improve its value by turning it into a Fontana?

In a letter that Harold sent to the gallery, attempting to play down the whole incident, he is quoted as saying We could even put it up for sale now for $3.5m on the basis it is ‘famous’.

Source: Extraordinary moment British man ‘walked into a Colorado art gallery and slashed $3million painting belonging to his FATHER’ – as US police issue warrant for his arrest

Source: Suspicious man uses knife to destroy $3 million painting in Aspen gallery | AspenTimes.com

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