This great length while drawing Frank Le Gall for his series "Theodore Chick" (superb series, moreover, I recommend) asked me problem for quite some years .
Buy there a dozen years in a sale at Drouot "Bubbles at Drouot" be organized by Frédéric Bosser, and I'm happy that he found the scene of the hearings, very decorative, exotic, in the spirit of the series. First
error: I leave in its original frame (low-end) and in a room bathed in sunlight, while I realize later on that signature is felt . If the ink does not fear much, felt so poor! Felt starts with yellow and then disappears.
Second mistake: I became aware of after my first mistake, after 3 or 4 years, change the drawing room to put it in a darker spot (the intention was good). But put the bottom part of the range on a wall that was slightly damp , while the back of the framing is a simple cardboard held with pins, not waterproof.
Result: 2 years ago, I noticed that the paper was plagued with horrible spots, stains, fungi, paper is "stung" What!
How?
The idea of leaving the work to deteriorate I did not like because it seems that the fungus grew and eventually would irreparably damage the design.
So I decided to attack!
First to restore the paper through Marie-Laure de Lapérouse , (not that it occurred but she knows people in the trade). Great job that has virtually removed all the tasks without damaging the design. I do not know exactly how they do, I think they spend a lotion to the back of the paper that aspires fungi.
Then he landed another problem: that of the signature. As the conservator did not want to tamper with the signature (in truth, I do not know if I would have the opportunity to resign), the paper around the signature remained piqued.
You can see above the status of signature and foxing of paper! As
Gallery Petits Papiers organized these days an exhibition Frank Le Gall, I was at the opening to re-sign Le Gall in another part of the drawing, which required that this tiny piece j'ampute right.
The signature was made this time with a permanent marker of quality because the author can hardly sign in ink as I had explained in our correspondence: "the reason I rarely sign pen, and my signature is that it does not agree. I can not sign soon, and my pen stops or crackles in every corner of my "L "..."
In reviewing the drawing, Gall said that the characters on the far left was a self-portrait of the time! Just like Hergé who drew the crowd in the hearing "Ottokar's Sceptre" ...
I then completed my project by reframing the work in a long-Nielsen, Bricorama any beast, with a master tailor-made. I think it makes good.
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