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Vandal caught on video spray-painting Picasso work in a Houston gallery

Posted On Wednesday, June 20, 2012 at 08:59:30 AM

Another visitor filmed the incident
An incredible video, posted on YouTube, captures the moment a daring vandal defaced Pablo Picasso's 1929 artwork 'Woman in a Red Armchair' as it hung on a Texas gallery wall.

The iPhone footage,taken by a museum goer on Wednesday,shows a young man walk up to the famous painting in the Menil Collection, Houston,and use a stencil to spray-paint a bull before fleeing the scene.

Underneath the bull,the graffiti artist sprayed the word 'Conquista' which means 'Conquest' in Spanish,reports The Daily Mail.

Houston police are using the footage as well as surveillance video in their hunt for the culprit,who they believe to be Hispanic and aged between 19 and 20. The museum was unable to estimate the painting's value.







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