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A woman poses with Mark Rothko's painting Black On Maroon 1958 (right) after going back on display at Tate Modern gallery, 18 months after it was vandalised with graffiti on May 13, 2014 in London, England. The 1958 painting, worth around £5million to £9million, was defaced in October 2012 by Wlodzimierz Umaniec.Rob Stothard--Getty Images by [Megan Gibson](https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/) ## Megan Gibson May 13, 2014 12:31 PM UTC The Tate Modern in London is putting Mark Rothko’s mural “Black on Maroon” [back on display Tuesday](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/10826531/Vandalised-Rothko-restored-by-Tate-Modern.html), more than a year and a half after the work was defaced with black ink by an art blogger attempting to draw attention to an obscure artistic movement. In October, 2012, Wlodzimierz Umaniec, a homeless Russian artist, stepped over a barrier at the London gallery and calmly wrote “A Potential Piece of Yellowism” in the bottom right-hand corner of the piece with dripping black ink, before signing the name “Vladimir Umanets.” The 1958 painting is thought to be worth anywhere between $8.5 million to $15 million. Umaniec later said he believed his vandalism had made the work more valuable and described “Yellowism,” a movement he helped found, to [ABC News](http://abcnews.go.com/International/rothko-mural-vandal-made-valuable/story?id=17422111#.UHMP7OyXRKo), calling it “neither art nor anti-art. It is a resignation of art.” Umaniec received a two-year jail sentence for his vandalism. The gallery has spent the past 18 months restoring the painting, which was made with layers of oil, pigment, resin, egg and glue. The black ink had soaked through the layers to the work’s canvas in certain places. A Tate spokesman told the [_Telegraph_](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/10826531/Vandalised-Rothko-restored-by-Tate-Modern.html) that while the damage “will always remain under the surface of the work,” the painting is now considered to be in “a displayable condition.” \[[_Telegraph_](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/10826531/Vandalised-Rothko-restored-by-Tate-Modern.html)\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/97311/tate-modern-rothko/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/97311/tate-modern-rothko/"},"headline":"Tate Modern Puts Defaced Rothko Back on Display","datePublished":"2014-05-13T12:31:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:48:01.622Z","description":"The London gallery has put Mark Rothko's painting “Black on Maroon” back on display, 18 months after a homeless artist vandalized the work with dripping black ink","url":"https://time.com/97311/tate-modern-rothko/","keywords":["Fine Art","Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80fd9d390a488a2e/69868f0d13c79feb761920e3/490036495.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan Gibson","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/megan-gibson/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt80fd9d390a488a2e/69868f0d13c79feb761920e3/490036495.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Vandalised Mark Rothko Work Goes Back On Display After Restoration","caption":"Vandalised Mark Rothko Work Goes Back On Display After Restoration","creditText":"Rob Stothard--Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/fine-art/","name":"Fine Art"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/97311/tate-modern-rothko/","name":"Tate Modern Puts Defaced Rothko Back on Display"}}]}] ```