A climate campaigner stuck a poster over a painting by Claude Monet hanging in a Paris museum, in the latest of a string of acts of vandalism against famous works of art.
The activist, from the group Food Riposte, a movement calling for sustainable agriculture to tackle climate change, affixed a sticker on Monet’s “Poppy Field”, covering the artwork with an apocalyptic version of the same scene.
She posed for pictures alongside the vandalised painting as it hung in the renowned Musee d’Orsay in the French capital, a favoured tourist spot and home to some of some of the world’s most famous impressionist works.
In a video of the incident, the activist said: “This nightmarish image awaits us if no alternative is put in place.”