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Before treatment, the painting was brought into the lab with a very large curved tear....Read more

After treatment, the painting is cleaned, repaired and restored to its original appearance. ...Read more

Before, under raking light the tear is misaligned and the canvas is stretched at the tear edge....Read more

After, even under scrutiny of raking light, our repair and restoration is almost seamless....Read more

Before, the canvas has a huge tear. ...Read more

After, the painting is lined onto a multifilament synthetic for best planarity over time, but loose lined with cotton ca...Read more

Before, a detail shows the gapped tear....Read more

After, the painting is repaired and restored in a clean and minimal manner for the best result, even in a detailed view....Read more

Before, a detail shows the unevenly gapped tear....Read more

During, the tear is aligned and repaired, awaiting inpainting....Read more

After, the area is inpainted minimally and precisely into the hairline repair to fully integrate during restoration....Read more

Prior to lining, the conservator aligns and repairs the tear temporarily with humidification and under suction to get th...Read more

The painting is lined on our multi-purpose suction table. Lining covers the verso of a painting, and we only line a pai...Read more

Unknown artist: Three Sisters
oil on canvas, 20″ x 32″

Project Highlights

This oil on canvas painting was accidentally damaged by the owner, resulting in a very large tear. The painting was cleaned, the tear aligned carefully under suction, and the canvas lined to restore strength. The careful pre-lining tear alignment resulted in only a very small amount of infill and inpainting required to make the painting whole again.