How a defaced masterpiece was restored
Posted by Josh Taylor / September 5, 2018
This video was eighteen months in the making. In 2012, a Mark Rothko painting from 1958 was defaced with black graffiti at the at the Tate Modern. It took nine months for the team to test methods for removing ink from the painting, and the methods that the used to find a way that would work are worthy of any Sherlock Holmes experiment. It took another nine months to work on the painting, called “Black on Maroon.”
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