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Manuel Neri collage#7
Frank Lobdell  (April (1976)
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FRANK LOBDELL    "27  MAY 1948"
Manuel Neri    " collage#7 "
Manuel Neri   " Collage # 1"
Frank Lobdell         "April  1976"
Mark Adams    " portrait Beth Van Hoesen "  
Roy DeForest
Mark Adams        " self portrait"
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Art Conservation's extensive contribution to Modern Art can be summarized into three categories:
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finally a strategy to treat and conserve modern and contemporary art.         
MODERN  PAINTINGS
Oil on canvas
Joan Brown      "self portrait"
"  WHERE IS MY WANDERING SON "    
DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PAINTING TO
DETERMINE STAGE  AND METHODS TO
REMOVE FOREIGN DEPOSITS.    
PAINTING HAD BEEN HANGING ABOVE A
FIREPLACE FOR SEVERAL DECADES.
ACCUMULATION OF DIRT, DUST MIXED
TOGETHER  WITH CARBON PARTICLES,
DISCOLORATION, STAINING, EXPOSED
GESSED AREAS AND TEXTURED PAINT
LAYER.
PROCESS: HALF REMOVAL , CLEANING REPEATED SEVERAL TIMES ON EACH SECTION OF THE PAINTING OVER SEVERAL
DAYS TO ALLOW CLEANING AGENTS TO EVAPORATE TO STABILIZE CLEANING AREA
AFTER  TREATMENT AND SEALING OF THE PAINTING
TREATMENT: CONSOLIDATION OF DIFFERENT PARTS OF PAINTING. CERTAIN JOINED
SEGMENTS OF PAINTED CANVAS BECAME LOOSE AND REQUIRED SPECIAL ATTENTION
.
ACCUMULATED  GRIME REMOVED, MULTIPLE CRAQUELURES SCATTERED
EVERYWHERE WERE INPAINTED, AND PAINT SURFACE VARNISHED.
BEFORE TREATMENT
PROCESS; CLEANING SURFACE
AFTER TREATMENT
CONDITION: CONTRACTION OF CANVAS, SEPARATION OF PAINT LAYERS  FROM CANVAS,
NUMEROUS WIDE CRAQUELURES AND SCATTERED LOSSES OF THICK PAINT LAYER.    
TREATMENT:  FACING PAINT SURFACE, RESTRETCHING  CANVAS ON A WORKING
STRETCHER, CONSOLIDATION OF PAINT LAYER AND CANVAS, PLAINING SURFACE OF THE
CANVAS, REMOVAL OF FACING PAPER, PAINT CLEANING, COMPENSATION  OF GESSO
WITH IMITATION OF BRUSH STROKES, INPAINTING    
CONDITION OF THE PAINTING BEFORE APPLICATION OF GESSO
AN  ENTIRELY  GESSO-COMPENSATED,  PAINTING PRIOR TO INPAINTING
AFTER  TREATMENT
THIS PAINTING WAS RECENTLY TREATED In AN ANOTHER
CONSERVATION LABORATORY  AND DELIVERED TO ME.  
TREATMENT: REMOVAL OF PREVIOUS  INPAINTING, REMOVAL OF
VERY WEAK GESSO, REPLACING AND LEVELING OF GESSO,
INPAINTING
TREATMENT
In PROCESS  AND  AFTER In PAINTING
AFTER TREATMENT: PAINTING HAS BEEN CLEANED AND SEALED
BEFORE TREATMENT
BEFORE TREATMENT:  FRAGMENT
BEFORE TREATMENT:   FRAGMENT
BEFORE;   FRAGMENT
BEFORE ;    FRAGMENT
AFTER TREATMENT
AFTER:    FRAGMENT
AFTER:   FRAGMENT
AFTER:   FRAGMENT
AFTER:   FRAGMENT
AFTER:   FRAGMENT
CONDITION: NUMEROUS CRAQUELURES, AN AGED ACCUMULATION  OF DIRT.                                   
TREATMENT:  CONSOLIDATION OF SOME AREAS, CLEANING SURFACE OF THE PAINTING, FILL In
WIDE CRACKS AND INPAINTING ALL DISTURBING  CRAQUELURES THAT DISTRACT ATTENTION
FROM ORIGINAL INTENTION OF THE ARTIST, SEALING.
BEFORE TREATMENT
BEFORE TREATMENT: A NUMEROUS TRACES OF LEAKS  ON BLOUSE,
DISCOLORATION OF PAINT LAYER
BEFORE TREATMENT;  MULTIPLE DISTURBING CRAQUELURES ON HAIRS OF SUBJECT.
AFTER TREATMENT
TREATMENT:  CLEANING SURFACE OF THE PAINTING, REMOVAL
OF STAINED LEAKS OF SOME SUBSTANCE, INPAINTING OF
CRAQUELURES ON HAIR SECTION, SEALING
AFTER TREATMENT:  SHOWN FRAGMENTS OF THE PAINTING AFTER INPAINTING
TREATMENT:  CLEANING SURFACE OF THE PAINTING, A
MINOR INPAINTING ON ABRADED AREAS
TREATMENT: CLEANING PAINTING, FILL In GESSO In SOME AREAS WITH DEEP CRACKS,
INPAINTING, SEALING
SCULPTURES
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PROCESS; CLEANING SURFACE
PROCESS; CLEANING SURFACE
SHOWN ARE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE PAINTING BEFORE TREATMENT
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