A Single Blade of Grass visions were a cheat. The camera would go to a coffee cup and Frank would say, 'The murderer used a coffee cup.' It drove me nuts. What we were trying to do this year was elevate Frank's visions to a dream-like state, so he would have to interpret what he's seeing. There would be more mystical, symbolic imagery that might give him more of a sense of what's going on. I had wanted to strip away the gift for a long time and see if the show really played without it. But we got back into that". "A Single Blade
Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat the National Gallery of Ireland in 1924. It is valued at €10m. At around 11am on 29 June 2012 a visitor to the gallery, Andrew Shannon, punched the painting causing "huge damage, shocking damage" with "an extensive three-branched tear". After 18 months of restoration work, on 1 July 2014, the painting was re-hung in the gallery, behind protective glass. The restoration saw 7% of the damaged area being lost, in a process that involved sewing microscopic threads back together. Shannon was jailed for 5 years for the attack. Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat Argenteuil Basin with a Single Sailboat