Soup stunt could have damaged Van Gogh’s Sunflowers

Two eco-zealots threw a tin of Heinz tomato soup over Vincent Van Gogh’s ‘Sunflowers’ in a publicity stunt that risked causing ‘serious damage’ to one of the world’s most famous paintings, a court heard. Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, both 22, hurled the liquid at the 1888 masterpiece at the National Gallery on 14 October 2022 and then glued themselves to the wall. Luckily the oil-on-canvas painting, worth up to £72.5m, is protected by a glass cover, but the 17th…