A small crowd at the Clark County Antique & Collectible Show gathered around Charles Tovar as he used a paintbrush to swirl clear liquid onto an old oil painting.

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Jules Dupré’s “Animals Crossing a Bridge,” painted in the mid-19th century, hangs in the Montana Museum of Art and Culture, among the rest of a collection of antique art from ...

A few weeks later, an art restoration expert there called Huffman. The expert had found the artist's signature. That's when Huffman learned that the painting wasn't worth the $900 he'd paid for it.

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The Silver City antique dealers picked up the painting in August 2017 as part of an estate sale in a nearby town and, after customers began inquiring about whether it was a real de Kooning, Van ...

Materials: Mineral Spirits (paint thinner), boiled Linseed Oil (Purchased as Boiled Linseed Oil), #0000 Steel Wool, Clean rags (preferably soft cotton) I learned this when I was 15 years old while ...

Restoration is a very diverse field, and just because someone can fix an antique desk, it doesn’t mean they can fix yours. One alternative would be to contact a high-end american gallery (hirschl & ...