Screen messed up after opening MacBook Pro

Hi all,
Occasionaly when I open up my MacBook Pro to resume my session the screen is all garbled up like in the following photo.
The only thing I can do to fix this is power off the laptop by holding the power button and waiting a few sec before restarting it again. After restarting everything works fine.
Has anyone else been having problems like this or know what's causing it?
Thanks in advance
Kris

I would recommend taking that in to a service provider. It may be a software issue but it is likely an issue with the graphics card which will require a main logic board replacement

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