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Tristan Kirk

Just Stop Oil activists 'damaged antique frame' with Van Gogh's Sunflowers soup stunt at National Gallery

Eco-activists who threw Heinz tomato soup at Vincent Van Gogh’s Sunflowers masterpiece are accused of damaging the artwork’s 17th Century Italian frame when the soup “acted like a corrosive”, a court has heard.

Two Just Stop Oil protesters threw the contents of two soup cans on to glass protecting the priceless masterpiece as it hung in London’s National Gallery.

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