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6-yr-old boy punctures Magritte’s masterpiece with pinecone at Israel museum
short by Girish Kumar Anshul / on Thursday, 11 June, 2026
A painting by Rene Magritte is being restored after it was accidentally damaged at Jerusalem's Israel Museum. The artwork, 'The Castle of the Pyrenees', was punctured when a six-year-old-boy struck the canvas with a pinecone picked up in the museum's sculpture garden. The painting depicting a castle-topped rock dangling in sky over churning sea, has hung in museum since 1985.
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