lost edgar payne masterpiece painting found in dallas
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Lost Edgar Payne Masterpiece Painting Found in DallasStartling Cleaning and Art Restoration
Edgar Payne is one of the best known, most expensive vintage early California Impressionists bought and sold regularly. But you already know that probably, if this article caught your eye. I love everything he did, from the bays of Venice and Chioggia, Italy to the Alps to the East Coast, his western stuff and all over California. Its all good!
He is so well known that is always amazes me when a major unknown painting is “discovered” as happened this last week! Here’s a painting of “The Wetter Horn, Switzerland” that was languishing unappreciated in Dallas, Texas.
Then, just today, Steven Stern, principle for the gallery California Paintings found a limited edition copy of Stendahl Gallery’s publication on Edgar Payne in 1926 that highlights this painting as plate #9!! What a find. The painting arrived at Fine Art Conservation Laboratories for cleaning still in its original frame.
As you might guess by looking at the before painting conservation picture, the painting was super discolored due to a thick discolored hard varnish and probably nicotine and who-knows-what-else. As you will see in the short time lapse video of the cleaning, it didn’t come off easy or like a “regular” varnish. Here’s the very popular video that has been circulating all over the internet. Click on this link:
Edgar Payne Time Lapse Cleaning Video
We recently worked on a very nice large Edgar Payne California Sierra scene that sold through Bonham and Butterfields last Oct. 2012. It too had very discolored varnish and was made gorgeous for the LA Art Show in Feb 2013. In fact, Fine Art Conservation Laboratories has loved working on a huge number of the paintings by Edgar Payne over the years.
One of the consternations of this new discovery is that recently a new definitive (or maybe NOT so definitive now!) catalog and scholarly book on Edgar Payne came out and, obviously, doesn’t include this important painting. Click here to see the book on Amazon. How would you feel if you had a great painting by a well known artist and it missed getting into a new book on the artist?!
For a news article featuring Scott M. Haskins’, Click here: http://www.fineartconservationlab.com/media-room/art-restorerconservator-scott-m-haskins-featured-in-life-section-of-newspaper/
For art conservation and painting restoration questions call Scott M. Haskins 805 564 3438 or [email protected]
For art appraisal questions call Richard Holgate at 805 895 5121 or [email protected]
For questions about this painting of “The Watter Horn” by Edgar Payne, please call Mr. Steve Stern 310 729 6666 http://www.californiapaintings.com
See short videos by Scott M. Haskins on art conservation related subjects at YouTube channel “Bestartdoc” http://www.youtube.com/user/bestartdoc?feature=mhee
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