Earl R. Merrill: How Much Will It Cost To Repair The Tretyakov’s Vandalized Ivan The Terrible Portrait? Nearly $8,000 Or Nearly Half A Million?

Thursday, July 5, 2018

How Much Will It Cost To Repair The Tretyakov’s Vandalized Ivan The Terrible Portrait? Nearly $8,000 Or Nearly Half A Million?

“An estimate last month to restore Ilya Repin’s painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on November 16, 1581 (1885), damaged by a metal-pole-wielding assailant at Moscow’s State Tretyakov Gallery, was Rb30m ($474,000). This is 60 times the sum reported immediately after the incident on 25 May.”