Two protesters have pasted a photo of a Gazan mother and child over a Picasso artwork at the National Gallery. At just before noon the pair walked into the London gallery and plastered a photograph of a mother clutching her child over the protective glass cover of the 1901 painting ‘Motherhood (La Maternité) before pouring red paint on the gallery floor. The group is calling for a two-way arms embargo on Israel and for the new UK government to halt all new oil and gas licences granted since 2021. GB News has approached the National Portrait Gallery for a comment. More to come…
