Conservation of poster with loss in the image

  • Owner: Film Library of Catalonia
  • Artefact: Poster of the film No man of her own (translated to Spanish as “Mentira latente”), first displayed 1951. Lithographic printed paper.
  • Author (of the Spanish version poster): José Peris Aragó.
  • Damages: Severe folds, tears, fragmentation, paper losses right in the face of the protagonist (Barbara Stanwyck)..
  • Conservation treatment: Dry cleaninng, wet cleaning and deacidification, consolidation (tears mending, gaps infilling, lining), flattening and inpainting. The inpainting criteria is deceptive, reproducing a digital version of another poster that was complete.
  • Conservators: Rita Udina.
Lithographic poster with losses. Before conservation

Before conservation.

Backed poster without in-painting

Backed poster without in-painting.

After deceptive in-painting

After deceptive in-painting.

Loss infilled with paper. Lithographic poster of the film "No man of her own" ("Mentira latente", in Spanish version), by Peris Aragó.Loss infilled and in-painted with colour pencils. Lithographic poster of the film "No man of her own" ("Mentira latente", in Spanish version), by Peris Aragó.

Left: backed poster. Right: in-painted poster.
Scroll from the image centre towards left and right to see before and after the loss retouch.

Clients

AHEH (10) Alcon-Cusi Pharmacy Museum (5) Archive Barcelona Sants-Montjuïc Dst. (5) Archives (50) Barcelona City Council (13) 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) 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) Márk Somogyi (3) 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 (23) 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, ARGENTINA) (3) SICP Chile (3) Sitges Museums (4) Tapestry Art Centre Grau Garriga (5) University of Granada (Spain) (4)

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