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Conservation of Modern Oil Paintings

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Editors:
  1. Klaas Jan van den Berg

    1. Cultural Heritage Laboratory, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  2. Ilaria Bonaduce

    1. Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

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  3. Aviva Burnstock

    1. Department of Conservation & Technology, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK

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  4. Bronwyn Ormsby

    1. Conservation Science & Preventive Conservation, Tate Britain, London, UK

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  5. Mikkel Scharff

    1. School of Conservation, KADK School of Conservation, Copenhagen, Denmark

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  6. Leslie Carlyle

    1. Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL), Caparica, Portugal

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  7. Gunnar Heydenreich

    1. TH Köln, Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences, Köln, Germany

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  8. Katrien Keune

    1. Conservation & Science Department, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  • Covers the characterization of modern-contemporary oil paints and paint surfaces
  • Investigates softening and dripping paints in contemporary oil paintings
  • Focuses on how knowledge is transferred from conservators to researchers and vice versa

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Table of contents (46 chapters)

  1. Case Studies: Artists Techniques and Materials; Degradation; Ethical Considerations; Treatment Options

    1. Picasso 1917: An Insight into the Effects of Ground and Canvas in the Failure Mechanisms in Four Artworks

      • A. Vila, A. Murray, C. K. Andersen, F. C. Izzo, L. Fuster-López, E. Aguado-Guardiola et al.
      Pages 245-253

    2. Investigation on the Speckles Syndrome Affecting Late 1920s Oil Paintings by René Magritte

      • Catherine Defeyt, Francisca Vandepitte, Joy Mazurek, Elodie Herens, David Strivay
      Pages 255-263

    3. Examination of Paint Delamination in C’est grace à nous by Asger Jorn

      • Ida Antonia Tank Bronken, Jaap J. Boon, Calin Constantin Steindal
      Pages 265-274

    4. A Synchrotron Photoluminescence Microscopy Study into the Use and Degradation of Zinc White in ‘The Woodcutters’ by Bart van der Leck

      • Selwin Hageraats, Katrien Keune, Mathieu Thoury, Ruth Hoppe
      Pages 275-288

    5. ‘Breaking Waves’. The Relation Between Zinc-Oxide Degradation and Extreme Delamination from the Panel Support of Beach Scene, by J.E.H. Akkeringa (1861–1942)

      • Alma Jongstra, Klaas Jan van den Berg, Ella Hendriks, Suzan de Groot, Henk van Keulen, Maartje Stols-Witlox
      Pages 289-296

    6. Efflorescence on the Paintings of Edwin Austin Abbey: Examination, Analysis, and Cleaning of Surface Bloom on The Spirit of Light

      • Kelsey Wingel, Richard Hark, Katherine Schilling, Cynthia Schwarz, Anikó Bezur
      Pages 297-307

    7. A Study of Softening and Liquefying Oil Paint on Womenizer by Alex Janvier

      • Kate Helwig, Jennifer Poulin, Patrick Gauthier
      Pages 309-324

    8. The Deterioration and Treatment of Some Late Paintings by Paul-Émile Borduas

      • Michael O’Malley
      Pages 325-338

    9. Colors Before Zero: Commercial Alkyd-Oil Enamel Paints in Early Reliefs by Jan J. Schoonhoven

      • Lydia Beerkens, Chiara Manfriani, Stijn Lenaerts, Gwendoline R. Fife
      Pages 339-346

    10. Some Considerations When Cleaning Robert Ryman’s Oil Paint(ings)

      • Lise Steyn, Klaas Jan van den Berg, Maartje Stols-Witlox, Ella Hendriks, Louise Wijnberg
      Pages 347-362

    11. Challenges of Surface Cleaning Paintings by Asger Jorn (1914–1973): An Inventory of Existing Practice

      • Juul Bierings, Lise Steyn, Maartje Stols-Witlox, Klaas Jan van den Berg
      Pages 363-372

    12. Decision-Making Processes Regarding the Treatment of Modern Oil Paintings (1950s–Present) Exhibiting Paint Dripping and Oil Exudates

      • Jazzy de Groot, Lise Steyn, Maartje Stols-Witlox, Klaas Jan van den Berg
      Pages 373-381

    13. Between Rejection, Ignorance, and Preference: The History and Dilemma of Modern Double-Sided (Recto/Verso) Paintings with Regard to Issues of Conservation and Presentation

      • Ulrik Runeberg
      Pages 383-390

  2. Model Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 391-391
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    2. Time-Gated Photoluminescence Microscopy as an Emerging Method for the Study of Paint Cross-Sections

      • Alessia Artesani, Roberta De Angelis, Austin Nevin, Gianluca Valentini, Daniela Comelli
      Pages 393-402

    3. Mechanical and Moisture Sorption Properties of Commercial Artists’ Oil Paint by Dynamic Mechanical Thermal Analysis (DMA), Nanoindentation, and Dynamic Vapour Sorption (DVS)

      • Cecil Krarup Andersen, Ashley Freeman, Martin Nordvig Mortensen, Vincent Beltran, Michał Łukomski, Alan Phenix
      Pages 403-418

    4. A Preliminary Investigation into the Behavior of Modern Artists’ Oil Paints in a Hot and Humid Climate

      • Claire Grech, Nicole Tse, Augustine Doronila, Xiaofei Duan, Amerrudin Ahmad, Musrizal Mat Isa
      Pages 419-435

    5. Inside the Forger’s Oven: Identification of Drying Products in Oil Paints During and After Accelerated Drying with Increased Temperatures

      • Diana Blumenroth, Stephanie Dietz, Wolfgang Müller, Stefan Zumbühl, Walter Caseri, Gunnar Heydenreich
      Pages 437-450

    6. The Influence of Metal Stearates on the Water Sensitivity of Modern Oil Paints

      • Donatella Banti, Aviva Burnstock, Ilaria Bonaduce, Jacopo La Nasa, Judith Lee, Anna Lluveras-Tenorio et al.
      Pages 451-463

    7. The Rate of Solvent Action on Modern Oil Paint

      • Stefan Zumbühl
      Pages 465-474
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About this book

Artists’ oil paints have become increasingly complex and diverse in the 20th Century, applied by artists in a variety of ways. This has led to a number of issues that pose increasing difficulties to conservators and collection keepers. A deeper knowledge of the artists’ intent as well as processes associated with material changes in paintings is important to conservation, which is almost always a compromise between material preservation and aesthetics.

This volume represents 46 peer-reviewed papers presented at the Conference of Modern Oil Paints held in Amsterdam in 2018. The book contains a compilation of articles on oil paints and paintings in the 20th Century, partly presenting the outcome of the European JPI project ‘Cleaning of Modern Oil Paints’. It is also a follow-up on ‘Issues in Contemporary Oil Paint’ (Springer, 2014).

The chapters cover a range of themes and topics such as: patents and paint manufacturing in the 20th Century; characterization of modern-contemporary oil paints and paint surfaces; artists’ materials and techniques; the artists’ voice and influence on perception of curators, conservators and scientists; model studies on paint degradation and long term stability; approaches to conservation of oil paintings; practical surface treatment and display.

The book will help conservators and curators recognise problems and interpret visual changes on paintings, which in turn give a more solid basis for decisions on the treatment of these paintings. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Cultural Heritage Laboratory, Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Klaas Jan van den Berg

  • Department of Chemistry and Industrial Chemistry, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy

    Ilaria Bonaduce

  • Department of Conservation & Technology, Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK

    Aviva Burnstock

  • Conservation Science & Preventive Conservation, Tate Britain, London, UK

    Bronwyn Ormsby

  • School of Conservation, KADK School of Conservation, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Mikkel Scharff

  • Faculty of Sciences and Technology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCT/UNL), Caparica, Portugal

    Leslie Carlyle

  • TH Köln, Cologne Institute of Conservation Sciences, Köln, Germany

    Gunnar Heydenreich

  • Conservation & Science Department, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Katrien Keune

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