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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Christy Cooney

Just Stop Oil protesters charged with criminal damage to Van Gogh painting

A Just Stop Oil activist is arrested outside the National Gallery.
Two Just Stop Oil activists are arrested outside the National Gallery. Photograph: Martin Pope/Getty Images

Two women have appeared in court charged with criminal damage to the frame of Vincent van Gogh’s painting Sunflowers.

Two tins of tomato soup were thrown over the painting at London’s National Gallery on Friday, although the gallery later said the painting itself was undamaged and had been put back on display.

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