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A painting by revered artist Paul Gauguin sustained no damage after a woman attempted to ruin it last week because it showed two topless women together. The 1899 painting, Two Tahitian Women was on display at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C., as part of a Gauguin exhibit. “I feel that Gauguin is evil,” Burns later told an investigator. “He has nudity and is bad for the children. He has two women in the painting and it’s very homosex­ual. I was trying to remove it. I think it should be burned. I

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