Conservation of gouache on paper, painting by Joan Ponç

  • Owner: Private collection.
  • 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: See other images on the facebook album. 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.
Paper conservation: before treatmentPaper conservation: After treatment.

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