Featured Damaged Painting...what to do

Very uneven with more tears in the punched out section . I’ve never even heard of rabbits skin glue but I’ll be looking it up ten seconds from now .

 

https://www.fineartconservationlab....aliva-wins-chemistry-harvards-ig-nobel-prize/

 

Hi,
When I was helping with restoration of a church fire in Brooklyn, the MET gave us the wonderful information of salvia. We cleaned many paintings using salvia and Q-tips. We all had jars which we filled with salvia and kept in the refrigerator. Thank goodness we also had friends whom saved salvia for us. Several of the paintings were 10ft tall and 5 foot wide. Between the fire residue and years of incense the painting were magnificent when cleaned. The Q-tip company donated hundreds of boxes. I am always grateful to them and the others who donated.
greg

 

As much as I love old things and think what you did is wonderful the idea of working with a jar of someone else’s saliva is nauseating, lol. My own, ok I could do that no problem. Anyone else’s I think they would stay dirty

 

you can still place spittoons in evry room at home.
or install a clock in the hole and hang it in the kitchen.

 

I see it even from here that nobody believes me; all thinking he's turning in the red range again..

in fashion during Biedermeier and Historismus.

 

https://www.google.ch/search?q=bild...i=Ly1OYI7AFsKCabKup7AJ&bih=535&biw=1184&hl=de

 

Those are actually really neat! I’d never seen that. Not sure a clock in the middle of the ocean/bay would look as good as those in actual clock towers or at least on walls but could make mine abstract maybe!? Spittoons may be a better bet.

 

I don't know anything about the netflix series, but we do have talented conservators all over the U.S., working in museums and in private practice.

 

Fresh news on this painting. A old school Russian type guy came and gave me $200ish for it. He is going to restore it. Win win!

 

Congratulations, J.

 

Congrats! FYI, I'd recommend relining this painting before attempting any cleaning. The tear IMO is really too big for a patch.

I'm not an expert but in my experience cleaning around the rip could cause more damage without a new lining.

 

Out of my hands now but thank you. He either knew what he was doing or was very confident despite not knowing. He seemed to think it only a casual challenge. Now that I think about it he may have been Belgian. I don’t know why I said Russian but maybe he was one of those Dutch Russians.