A man named Andrew Shannon visited The National Gallery of Ireland on June 29, 2012, walked up to a painting by Monet entitled Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat and punched a hole clean through the canvas. The destruction of the painting, created in 1874 and worth approximately $12 million, sent Shannon to jail for five years.
Restoration experts set to work on the process of repairing the painting, a complicated process that took 18 months. The lengthy reconstruction began with laying the painting flat, paint side down on a layer of tissue to protect it. The canvas was removed from the frame and the torn section had to be aligned and rejoined in a painstaking, multi-step procedure involving a high-powered microscope.
Read about the repair in detail and see photos of each step, as well as the finished restoration, here.
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