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<text id=92TT0011>
<title>
Jan. 06, 1992: Business Notes:Art Restortation
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Jan. 06, 1992 Man of the Year:Ted Turner
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
BUSINESS, Page 64
Business Notes
ART RESTORATION
Murder of a Masterpiece?
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<p> American Modernist Barnett Newman's giant abstract painting
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue III was the pride of
Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum before a vandal slashed it in 1986.
At the time, the painting was valued at $3.1 million. Last
August, after U.S. art restorer Daniel Goldreyer repaired the
damage for a fee of $300,000, Who's Afraid was again put on
display. Now Dutch art experts are seeing red. Amsterdam art
historian Ernst van de Wetering has charged that Goldreyer
covered the entire canvas using a roller rather than reproducing
Newman's brushstrokes.
</p>
<p> After microscopic tests on Newman's work, a Dutch
laboratory concluded that Goldreyer had not matched the original
oils. Instead, the lab reported, the restorer had used alkyd,
a synthetic paint commonly used on window frames. Goldreyer has
acknowledged that he covered the canvas with an alkyd "seal" to
protect the work, but contends his restoration was faithful. The
Amsterdam cultural committee plans to try to recoup at least the
restoration costs.
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