Conservation of preliminary drawing for a tapestry: an oversized gouache on paper

  • Owner: Sant Cugat Council (Barcelona, Spain).
  • Artefact: Preliminary drawing for a carpet, an oversized gouache on paper. Measures: 190 x 55 cm.
  • Date: 20th century.
  • Damages: Cockling, big tears, tapes on the back side, glue remnants on the recto, powdery painting surface, dirt.
  • Conservation treatment: Dry cleaning, consolidation, backing with japanese tissue (washi). Flattening, loss compensation (in-painting).
  • Conservators: Càudia Callau, Hollie Drinkwater, Rita Udina.
  • Exhibited at: Center Grau-Garriga for Textile Contemporary Art (Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain).
  • Other links:
    Is retouching a taboo in paper conservation? Blog post where you can see this project.
    Facebook album.
    Instagram (below).
Conservation of preliminary drawing for a tapestry: an oversized gouache on paper

Before conservation (top, photograph: Pep Soler) and after, bottom.

Treatment stages (below, with subtitles):

Dry clenaning (below):

Conservation stages (below):

Conservation of preliminary drawing for a tapestry: an oversized gouache on paper

Loss comepnsation on preliminary drawing on Canson paper.

Clients

AHEH (10) Alcon-Cusi Pharmacy Museum (5) Archive Barcelona Sants-Montjuïc Dst. (5) Archives (50) Ayuntamiento Barcelona (4) Barcelona City Council (11) Barcelona Municipal Archive (9) CoAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia) (15) Cores (5) Documentation Center of Catalan Orfeó (3) Domènech i Montaner (5) Gaboche Ars (3) Galleries (23) Gazi Husrev-Begova Biblioteka (3) GenCat (Government of Catalonia) (19) Historical Archive of Barcelona (3) Historical Archive of Lleida (4) ICON Book & Paper (3) Industrial Museum of Ter (4) Institute for Photographic Studies (IEFC) (3) INTACH (Dehli) (7) La Pedrera Foundation (3) Laura Corso (3) Libraries (29) Municipal Archive of Renteria (4) Museums (25) National Archive of Catalonia (ANC) (8) National Museum of Norway (4) NSK - National Library and University (Zagreb CROATIA) (5) onLine (12) Pere Sacot (3) private collector (24) Provincial Council of Barcelona (DiBa) (5) Public Library of Girona Carles Rahola (7) Regional Archive Baix Ebre (3) Regional Archive Urgell (4) Regional Archive Vallès Occidental (4) Research Library of Dubrovnik (CROATIA) (4) Restauratoren Nederland (4) Rijksmuseum (4) Sant Cugat del Vallès Council (5) SICP Chile (5) Sitges Museums (4) Tapestry Art Centre Grau Garriga (5) University of Granada (Spain) (4)

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