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Marseille, Jul 23: A woman has been arrested on suspicion of kissing a painting by American artist Cy Twombly and smudging the bone-white canvas with her lipstick.
 
Police said they arrested the woman after she kissed the work on Thursday. She is to be tried in a court in the southern city of Avignon on August 16 for "damage to a work of art," judicial officials said on Saturday.

The painting, which is worth an estimated $2 million, was on display at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Avignon. It is part of an exhibition slated to run at the museum through September 30. Officials did not provide further details on the painting.

Twombly is known for his abstract paintings combining painting and drawing techniques, repetitive lines and the use of graffiti, letters and words. 

  

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