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TOULOUSE-LAUTREC AND THE STARS OF PARIS:  Conservation Treatment and Digitization of Posters for Exhibit

NEDCC conserved, digitized, and framed nine large Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec posters from the Boston Public Library's collection in preparation for their loan for a major exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston  from April to August 2019. The treatment of these heavily damaged ephemeral objects, which are now revered as fine art, was a balance in subtle aesthetic improvement required for exhibition and structural stabilization for long-term preservation.

These colorful, oversized posters on cheap, thin wood pulp paper were intended as commercial ephemeral objects and treated as such by those who produced and displayed them. However, Toulouse-Lautrec's unconventional compositions and gestural lines combined with his sometimes suggestive subject matter created both sensation and scandal at the time of their display around Paris. Popular in their time, collectors quickly began to gather these posters that would likely have been discarded. 

The poor condition of most of the posters necessitated extensive yet delicate conservation treatment to prepare them for exhibit and to stabilize them for long-term storage.  

READ THE STORY and view a detailed photo gallery of the conservation and digitization process: www.nedcc.org/stories

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