Conservation of gouache on paper, painting by Joan Ponç

Owner: Private collection. Conservation treatment funded by La Pedrera Foundation.
Artefact:“Gran Pastoral”, gouache on paper, 83 x 112 cm.
Author: Joan Ponç.
Date: 1948.
Damages: The artwork was lined on a Kraft paper with tapes and synthetic adhesives. It had losses and tears, and remarkable discolouration. The paper was extremely brittle.
Conservation treatment: Tape and synthetic adhesives removal. Slanted capillary washing and light bleaching, infilling of losses, lining, inpainting (mimetic criteria in the small ones, neutral color in the bigger ones). Flattening.
Conservators: Rita Udina, Eugènia Piferrer.
Other links: Diving-in wet treatments! . See other facebook images. See also this video in which the wet treatment and inks fixation is shown.
Exhibited at: Joan Ponç: Diabolo. La Pedrera (Barcelona). October 6th 2017 to February 4th 2018.

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Owner: Private collection. Conservation treatment funded by La Pedrera Foundation.
Artefact:“Gran Pastoral”, gouache on paper, 83 x 112 cm.
Author: Joan Ponç.
Date: 1948.
Damages: The artwork was lined on a Kraft paper with tapes and synthetic adhesives. It had losses and tears, and remarkable discolouration. The paper was extremely brittle.
Conservation treatment: Tape and synthetic adhesives removal. Slanted capillary washing and light bleaching, infilling of losses, lining, inpainting (mimetic criteria in the small ones, neutral color in the bigger ones). Flattening.
Conservators: Rita Udina, Eugènia Piferrer.
Other links: Diving-in wet treatments! . See other facebook images. See also this video in which the wet treatment and inks fixation is shown.
Exhibited at: Joan Ponç: Diabolo. La Pedrera (Barcelona). October 6th 2017 to February 4th 2018.