In a bizarre act of vandalism earlier this week a man wearing a hat, sunglasses and one blue glove entered an art gallery in Aspen, Colorado and slashed two holes in a $3 million (NZ$4 million) painting.
Surveillance footage shows that the unknown man walked into the Opera Gallery, bypassed other valuable works from artists like Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall and stopped in front of the contemporary Christopher Wool painting.
He then pulled a knife or razor from his pocket and quickly slashed the painting twice before running out, the Daily Mail reports.
The work is priced at US$2.95 million and simply called Untitled 2014. Wool's artwork is known to sell for huge sums and one was recently sold at auction for $26.4 million.
Gregory Lahmi, the owner of the gallery near Aspen Mountain, told The Aspen Times that he couldn't believe the painting had been destroyed.