A painting of Daniel Buren exposed at the Center Pompidou suffered Thursday "a serious deliberate degradation" committed by a man who damaged it with a cutter, said Friday the museum in a statement.

A man has degraded a painting by Daniel Buren exposed at the Center Pompidou, Thursday, with cutter. The museum said in a statement that said painting, entitled "Painting, Manifestation 3", had suffered "a serious and deliberate degradation".

A surveillance officer who was doing his rounds immediately alerted the security station. "The CCTV cameras made it possible to quickly locate the individual, he made no claim and was handed over to the police," said the school.

The individual leads to a psychiatric unit

The Pompidou Center has lodged a complaint about "deliberate damage to a cultural property that is in the public domain". A judicial inquiry was opened. Daniel Buren, "was informed" and the abstract work was transferred to the reserves of the Pompidou Center to estimate the damage and restoration conditions.

"To our knowledge, says the museum in its statement, the custody of the individual was lifted that afternoon and he was taken to a psychiatric unit.