A woman who was taking an art class at New York's Metropolitan¹ Museum of Art has accidentally fallen into a Picasso painting and damaged it.

一位妇女在纽约大都会艺术博物馆参加艺术课的时候，不小心碰倒一副毕加索作品，该作品因此破损。

The painting should be repaired in time for an April exhibition

The painting called The Actor sustained a vertical²垂直的 tear of about six inches (15cm) in the lower right-hand corner.

But the damage did not affect the "focal point焦点 of the composition" and should be repaired for an exhibition later this year, the museum said.

The work from the Rose period粉红色时期 was painted in the winter of 1904-1905.

The repair should be completed in time for the Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, which will feature some 250 works from the museum's collection and is due to open at the end of April.

The unusually large canvas帆布, measuring 6ft by 4ft (1.8m by 1.2m) and which depicts描述，描绘 an acrobat杂技演员 posed against an abstracted心不在焉的，出神的 backdrop背景, was damaged on Friday.