Conservation of oversized Adami drawings from Musée Jean Cocteau

  • Owner: Jean Cocteau Museum (Menton, France).
  • Object: Adami sketches, three oversized drawings on Canson-type paper and caseine media. Measures: 200 x 150 cm.
  • Author: Valerio Adami.
  • Date: 1992.
  • Damages: Cockling and stains caused by a flood.
  • Conservation treatment: Wet cleaning (slanted capillary washing with Paraprint OL), flattening, consolidation and new conservation mounting.
  • Conservators: Project lead by Silvia Brunetti, at her paper conservation lab in Avignon (France). Olivier Masson, Antonio Taormina & Rita Udina, collaborators.

Conservation of artwork on paper: Slanted capillary wash with Paraprint OL

Slanted capillary wash with Paraprint OL

Clients

AHEH (10) Alcon-Cusi Pharmacy Museum (5) Archive Barcelona Sants-Montjuïc Dst. (5) Archives (50) Ayuntamiento Barcelona (5) Barcelona City Council (11) Barcelona Municipal Archive (9) Buat Fine Art (3) CoAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia) (15) Cores (5) Documentation Center of Catalan Orfeó (3) Domènech i Montaner (5) Gaboche Ars (3) Galleries (24) Government of Catalonia (19) Historical Archive of Barcelona (3) Historical Archive of Lleida (4) ICON (4) Industrial Museum of Ter (4) Institute for Cultural Heritage of Spain (IPCE) (6) INTACH (Dehli) (7) La Pedrera Foundation (4) Laura Corso (3) Libraries (29) Municipal Archive of Renteria (5) Museums (26) Márk Somogyi (3) National Archive of Catalonia (ANC) (8) National Museum of Norway (4) NSK - National Library and University (Zagreb CROATIA) (5) onLine (14) private collector (26) Provincial Council of Barcelona (DiBa) (5) Public Library of Girona Carles Rahola (7) Regional Archive Baix Ebre (3) Regional Archive of Vallès Occidental (4) Regional Archive Urgell (4) Research Library of Dubrovnik (CROATIA) (4) Restauratoren Nederland (5) Rijksmuseum (5) Sant Cugat del Vallès Council (5) SICP Chile (3) Sitges Museums (4) Tapestry Art Centre Grau Garriga (5) University of Granada (Spain) (4)

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Conservation of oversized Adami drawings from Musée Jean Cocteau

  • Owner: Jean Cocteau Museum (Menton, France).
  • Object: Adami sketches, three oversized drawings on Canson-type paper and caseine media. Measures: 200 x 150 cm.
  • Author: Valerio Adami.
  • Date: 1992.
  • Damages: Cockling and stains caused by a flood.
  • Conservation treatment: Wet cleaning (slanted capillary washing with Paraprint OL), flattening, consolidation and new conservation mounting.
  • Conservators: Project lead by Silvia Brunetti, at her paper conservation lab in Avignon (France). Olivier Masson, Antonio Taormina & Rita Udina, collaborators.

Conservation of artwork on paper: Slanted capillary wash with Paraprint OL

Slanted capillary wash with Paraprint OL

Clients

AHEH (10) Alcon-Cusi Pharmacy Museum (5) Archive Barcelona Sants-Montjuïc Dst. (5) Archives (50) Ayuntamiento Barcelona (5) Barcelona City Council (11) Barcelona Municipal Archive (9) Buat Fine Art (3) CoAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia) (15) Cores (5) Documentation Center of Catalan Orfeó (3) Domènech i Montaner (5) Gaboche Ars (3) Galleries (24) Government of Catalonia (19) Historical Archive of Barcelona (3) Historical Archive of Lleida (4) ICON (4) Industrial Museum of Ter (4) Institute for Cultural Heritage of Spain (IPCE) (6) INTACH (Dehli) (7) La Pedrera Foundation (4) Laura Corso (3) Libraries (29) Municipal Archive of Renteria (5) Museums (26) Márk Somogyi (3) National Archive of Catalonia (ANC) (8) National Museum of Norway (4) NSK - National Library and University (Zagreb CROATIA) (5) onLine (14) private collector (26) Provincial Council of Barcelona (DiBa) (5) Public Library of Girona Carles Rahola (7) Regional Archive Baix Ebre (3) Regional Archive of Vallès Occidental (4) Regional Archive Urgell (4) Research Library of Dubrovnik (CROATIA) (4) Restauratoren Nederland (5) Rijksmuseum (5) Sant Cugat del Vallès Council (5) SICP Chile (3) Sitges Museums (4) Tapestry Art Centre Grau Garriga (5) University of Granada (Spain) (4)

Types of projects