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Baumgartner Restoration Painstakingly Brings a Neglected Portrait Back to Life

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Baumgartner Restoration Painstakingly Brings a Neglected Portrait Back to Life
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“Paintings arrive at the studio in all states of disrepair,” shares art conservator Julian Baumgartner, who receives artworks in need of attention all the time. He adds, “It is, however, odd to have a painting arrive in a manner that can’t help but make one wonder just how bad it is.” An anonymous portrait was indeed folded inside a parcel that itself had been mangled enough in transit to make one think, Is this going to be salvageable? For the highly trained painti

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