Besides the Tretyakov, her work is held in the Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied, and Folk Arts in Moscow and the State Russian Museum in Saint Petersburg. Best known for her work in porcelain, she created alongside other notable avant-garde artists Nikolai Suetin and Lev Yudin.
Leporskaya, who died in 1982, was a student of the famous Russian Suprematist Kazimir Malevich. Protective screens have since been installed by the centre on all remaining works in the exhibition. A little Imagination is all that is required to see the vision of this world. Lets explore the possibilities of a world inhabited by Stick Figures. The painting has now been returned to the State Tretyakov. Depicting humans interacting with their environment doing what humans do in a Faceless world. HE MADE HIMSELF KNOWN AMONG PARISIAN GRAFFITI ARTISTS BY CREATING CHARACTERS. It will be paid by the private insurers AlfaStrakhovanie, which provided the initial valuation of the work. MURALS OF FACELESS FIGURES BY SETH, HE BORN IN PARIS, IN 1972, JULIEN MALLAND BEGAN PAINTING MURALS IN THE 20TH ARRONDISSEMENT OF PARIS UNDER THE NAME OF SETH. The Tretyakov estimates restoration costs at RUB 250,000 (£2,500), a fraction of the insurance cost. The painting by artist Anna Leporskaya, called Three. "The ink has slightly penetrated into the paint layer, since the titanium white used to paint the faces is not covered with varnish," but the marks were "made lightly", wrote Ivan Petrov in his inital report for TAN Russia. A painting worth 740,000 has been ruined after a security guard drew two pairs of eyes on the faceless figures on his first day on the job. However, damage to the work is easily reversible. He faces a fine of up to RUB 74.9m (£738,000)-the amount the painting was insured for-and up to one year of correctional labour or up to three months in prison, according to The Times. The guard has been fired and was last week detained by police on criminal vandalism charges. “His motives are still unknown but the administration believes it was some kind of a lapse in sanity,” she said. The exhibition's curator, Anna Reshetkina, said the painting was damaged by a 60-year-old guard “with a Yeltsin Centre-branded pen” and that he did so on his first day at work.
This week, following a police investigation, it has emerged that the vandal was a security guard employed by a private company, the Yeltsin Centre's executive director Alexander Drozdov confirmed in a statement.
Anna Leporskaya's Three Figures (1932–1934) prior to its defacement.
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