Accidents Happen: The Met’s Picasso Mishap Was Not Unique

There was the Lucian Freud drawing accidentally put through a shredder at Sotheby’s. The Qing dynasty vases shattered by a man who tripped on his shoelaces. The de Chirico painting damaged by a wrecking ball demolishing the house next door. The Impressionist canvases that were carted off with the trash. Says one art insurer, “These are the ‘oops’ claims.”