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! (2nd on-line edition). 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.
Find below part of the lecture in which this project is shown as an example of slanted capillary wash wit Paraprint OL. You can see all of it scrolling with the navigation controls, or visiting Diving-in wet treatments (2nd online edition).
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)
CoAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia) (15)
Cores (5)
Documentation Center of Catalan Orfeó (3)
Domènech i Montaner (5)
Gaboche Ars (3)
Galleries (24)
Gazi Husrev-Begova Biblioteka (3)
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)
Pere Sacot (3)
private collector (27)
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)
Sitges Museums (4)
Tapestry Art Centre Grau Garriga (5)
University of Granada (Spain) (4)
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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! (2nd on-line edition). 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.
Find below part of the lecture in which this project is shown as an example of slanted capillary wash wit Paraprint OL. You can see all of it scrolling with the navigation controls, or visiting Diving-in wet treatments (2nd online edition).
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)
CoAC (Association of Architects of Catalonia) (15)
Cores (5)
Documentation Center of Catalan Orfeó (3)
Domènech i Montaner (5)
Gaboche Ars (3)
Galleries (24)
Gazi Husrev-Begova Biblioteka (3)
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)
Pere Sacot (3)
private collector (27)
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)
Sitges Museums (4)
Tapestry Art Centre Grau Garriga (5)
University of Granada (Spain) (4)
