Man, I feel sympathetic - for a change - to a very rich person. Steve Wynn, the Las Vegas entrapreneur and art collector, has, according to a report by Nora Ephron, put his elbow through his newly purchased Picasso, that purchase price being $139,000,000. Turns out he has poor peripheral vision from an eye problem, one I have too. Seems to me, though, that that canvas must have been really weak.
I've in my past gotten "points" in canvasses, which I usually can get out by the famous sponge method... but I only had a torn canvas once, and that was because my irish setter put his foot through it (don't ask).
Article at Yahoo here