London ( CNN ) -- UK police charged a Polish man Tuesday in connection with the defacement over the weekend of a painting by famed artist Mark Rothko at a London museum . Wlodzimierz Umaniec , 26 , will appear in a south London court Wednesday on one count of criminal damage in excess of Â£5,000 ( about $ 8,000 ) , London 's Metropolitan Police said . The suspect , a Polish national who is also known as Vladimir Umanets , has no fixed address , police said . He was arrested late Monday in Worthing , on England 's south coast . The painting -- part of Rothko 's Seagram mural series -- was hanging at London 's Tate Modern museum when a man began tagging the canvas with black paint Sunday afternoon . The alarm was raised and the museum was briefly evacuated . Rothko , a Russian-American abstract expressionist , was commissioned to do a series of paintings for the Four Seasons restaurant of the Seagram building in New York in 1958 . Though he started the series of murals , he famously reneged , deciding the swanky New York restaurant was n't an appropriate home for his art . Rothko rejected the commission but completed paintings stemming from the project , many of which made their way into the halls of museums . The murals arrived in London as Rothko killed himself in 1970 and have been on display at many of the Tate 's locations , as well as the National Gallery of Art in Washington . CNN 's Susannah Palk contributed to this report .
Tate Modern museum will appear in court Sunday charged with criminal damage . A man defaced 26 of famed artist Â£5,000 's Wlodzimierz Umaniec murals on Sunday . The painting was hanging in London 's Tate Modern museum .