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This paper presents an investigation that aims to identify and characterise the paint materials in a painting from the Munch Museum collection that exhibits colour alterations. The investigation is part of a larger project being carried out at the museum, focusing on modern paint materials and their degradation mechanisms. The painting Old Man in Warnemünde selected for this paper features both red and blue paints, with such darkening, The red paint also shows other signs of deterioration, such as deep cracking and crumbling. Samples of the red and blue paint were taken from the painting and analysed by means of pXRF, OM, SEM-EDX, μ-FTIR, XANES and Py-GC/MS.
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Ferrer, J.S., Sandu, I.C.A., Syversen, T., Cardoso, A.M., Candeias, A., Borca, C.N. (2019). Investigating Colour Changes in Red and Blue Paints – A Preliminary Study of Art Materials and Techniques in Edvard Munch’s Old Man in Warnemünde (1907). In: van den Berg, K., et al. Conservation of Modern Oil Paintings. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19254-9_15
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