Baumgartner Restoration – The Hole Nine Yards
An evening pause: If your weekend hobby is art restoration, this is a video you have got to see. And if not, you should watch anyway because the repair he does is truly break-taking.
Hat tip Cotour.
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A great restoration, combining engineering & artistic expertise. I especially appreciated his hand-tearing of the Japanese mulberry paper (8:10) because he wanted to have a feathered edge, not a scissors-made straight edge.
One thing missing – how much was the cost of the restoration? $500?; $10,000? How much was the painting appraised for before restoring it? I’m not impressed with the painting itself, so restoring it would not be a consideration if I owned it, as a second or third owner, say. If this were a relative in the family, however, then it doesn’t matter what I think of it, it holds value to someone willing to pay to make the painting whole again. Can’t attach a price to someone else’s idea of beauty. As long as I am not required to use my own money to pay for it. (Government, are you listening?)
Full disclosure – I am not impressed with any of Pablo Picasso’s paintings either, whether his old or his new styles. So what do I know.
Don C.:
Can’t vouch for this, but there is a Tool….
“Art Restoration Cost Estimator”
https://momaa.org/art-restoration-cost-estimator/