Billionaire superyacht owner's children pelt onboard Basquiat painting with cornflakes

Do you think your life is tough? Be grateful you aren't this guy, reported in The Guardian:

Pandora Mather-Lees, an Oxford-educated art historian and conservator, started giving lessons after a billionaire asked for help to restore a Jean-Michel Basquiat painting damaged not by sea spray, but by breakfast cereal. His kids had thrown their cornflakes at it over breakfast on his yacht because they thought it was scary, Mather-Lees said. And the crew had made the damage worse by wiping them off the painting.

She declined to name the owner or identify the artwork, but a Basquiat painting depicting a crazed, skull-shaped face sold at auction for a US record $110.5m (84.5m) in 2017.

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