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One of our clients, recently told me the story of a wonderful project we did for him, but sometime later, “went South”…
Bobby told me about his live-in girlfriend who, in a fit of anger, grabbed his favorite painting (a beautiful view of Los Feliz done by Donna Schuster in the 1920’s on artist board) off the wall of the beach house and smashed/broke it into pieces!
Self portrait by Donna Schuster in Paris as she sat across the table having breakfast with Willliam Merritt Chase
Shocked, he gathered the pieces and asked the art dealer who sold him the painting what he should do. George Stern referred him to Fine Art Conservation Laboratories (Click here for his testimonial… ). It was with a very sad face and not much hope that he handed me the zip lock bag with the pieces of artwork in it…
We rejoined all the pieces, backed the original artist board for more strength and made it look like it never happened (click here for another amazing project of saving valuable art). Tony, the owner was over-joyed with disbelief.
Los Feliz by Donna Schuster
But Tony, I guess, had a thing for this girl… and didn’t break up with the girlfriend after her furious tantrum and her “attempt” to destroy his favorite painting. She was in fact a bit put out, once we had done the “amazing restoration,” that the painting was back on the wall looking as gorgeous as before! Too bad he didn’t throw the blonde out after her hissy fit…
It was no wonder, then, when her next furious tantrum erupted, she targeted the restored Donna Schuster painting again and, this time, threw it in the Pacific Ocean!
As hard as Tony tried among the surging tide and waves, it was never found again. I wonder which “loss” event could be claimed on an insurance policy?!?! The black-and-white photograph is the only evidence of the painting, illustrated in the “Southland” book of Ruth Westfall (page 102)… which means it was probably a worthy painting of being loved.
See the expanded article with other stories of irate partners that “take it out” on their lover’s prized possession of art (and where art restoration comes to the rescue)! Click here… (coming soon)
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Hello Scott,
What a story! Would have truly been great if you had the chance to restore it for a second time.
Yes but, even if they had found it, I’m not sure they would have found some salvageable…
Hi Scott! So many questions here but I’ll limit it to one: if he could have recovered the artwork from the ocean, could it have even been restored after that second brush with destruction??
Brooke, I guess it depends whether it would have been in the water for two minutes or 20 minutes or two hours… the salt is a factor too!
What a sad story. From the photo it looks like Los Feliz would have been a beautiful painting. I bet the restoration work was difficult. What is the process like for filling the broken cracks in the artist board?
If the cracks are clean, then they can go together like a broken dish. But usually, as you might imagine, there is a crack still visible after the piece are put together. They can be filled with a gesso (like plaster) and inpainted (or touched up) to disappear. Correct texturing and gloss is also required. Thanks for your comments and questions.