Paul Gauguin’s painting attacked by a US woman at Washington DC

An American woman has attacked on Paul Gauguin’s painting which were displayed at National Gallery in Washington DC and said the French artist was "evil", as per the court records.

The official said, Susan Burns broken up Two Tahitian Women and attempted to rip it from a gallery wall on Friday.

The 1899 painting, which shows two women's naked breasts, was followed a plastic cover and was unharmed. She was blamed with stabbed theft and demolition of assets and is being arrested until a mental analysis. On Friday afternoon a woman crashed her hands against the Plexiglas’s cover between the canvas and the frame.

A security officer of museum interfered and

A museum security officer intervened for control and held her. Later on Ms. Burns told the police she thought the painting must be flamed as per the court records analyzed by the Associated Press.

The 94cm by 75.4cm (37in by 30in) oil-on-canvas painting is on loan from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. National Gallery spokeswoman Deborah Ziska informed that it is expected to return on display on Tuesday morning.

 The art appears in two serene, golden-skinned Tahitian women gifting a bowl of flowers. "The painting confines Gauguin's mythical inspiration of Tahiti as a heaven of beautiful, mysterious women," museum curators write.

Ms. Ziska said, it was the first incident of act of destruction at the museum since the 1970s, when over the course of about five years, one man damaged a Renaissance-era chair and another spoiled 25 works, including by Renoir and Henri Matisse, with a "sharp object.