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A woman who says she was so overcome with passion for a valuable painting on display in France, has been charged with criminal damage after kissing it. The 3×2m (9×6-foot) painting by US artist Cy Twombly is valued at more than $2m (£970,000).

Staff at the Collection Lambert museum in the southern French city of Avignon alerted police after the incident on Thursday afternoon and she was arrested as she was walking out. Ms Rindy, herself an artist, is due to appear in court on 16 August.

Read full article (BBC News, 21 July 2007)

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