Museum Guest Trips into Warhol’s Triple Elvis at SFMOMA

Ron Rivlin, June 15, 2016

On June 3rd, the anniversary of Andy Warhol’s shooting, a museum visitor lost their balance while observing the art decked walls of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), brushing against Warhol’s Triple Elvis on his way down.

According to the L.A. Times, which cited the TV station KRON4, the visitor tripped and made contact with Andy Warhol’s painting “Triple Elvis (Ferus Type).”

After being removed by the museum as a precautionary measure and evaluated, conservators have reportedly estimated the damage to the $82 million painting as “minimal.”

SFMOMA has not commented on the state of the painting or the event.