Laman Arts & Restoration
Laboratory of Restoration.
Mirza Gadim Iravani. 19th century.
Azerbaijan National Museum of Art.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2022.
The processes carried out on the exhibit during the restoration:
1. Disinfection.
2. Mechanical (dry) cleaning.
3. Dismantling the paper glued to the back of the exhibit (which is now deformed and unsuitable). During the dismantling, it became obvious that the artwork was torn and divided into two parts.
4. The artwork was duplicated on a new paper basis, corresponding to the exhibit. The separated parts were merged.
5. The exhibit was put under the press.
6. Toning (with watercolor and colored pencil lead, ground into powder).
7. Passepartout (mounting).
I.Akhundov. “Clarity”. A decorative sketch for a theatrical performance. 1948.
Paper, gouache.
Azerbaijan State Theatre Museum.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2022.
The processes carried out on the exhibit during the restoration:
1. Disinfection.
2. Mechanical cleaning.
3. Restoration of lost parts.
4. Specially cut strips were glued to the artwork on the back side to prevent wrinkle.
5. The exhibit was put under the press.
6. Toning (with gouache).
A photography. Family portrait. House Museum of Victor Klein.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2023.
The processes carried out on the exhibit during the restoration:
The exhibit was dismantled from the wooden frame. The exhibit was first subjected to mechanical cleaning, then chemical cleaning and placed under the press. Later, the wooden frame was subjected to mechanical cleaning. The frame was tinted (where necessary) and varnished. The cardboard on the back of the frame has become unusable over time, so it was replaced by a new cardboard, specially cut according to the parameters of the original frame. The finished photograph was mounted back in the frame.
Sergey Yefimenko. “Viburnum grove”. 20th century.
Rag paper, watercolor.
Azerbaijan State Theatre Museum.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2022.
The processes carried out on the exhibit during the restoration:
1. Disinfection.
2. Mechanical cleaning.
3. Removing stains.
4. Restoration of lost parts (the lost parts were filled with paper corresponding to the exhibit).
5. The artwork was duplicated on a new paper basis, corresponding to the exhibit.
6. The exhibit was put under the press.
7. Toning (with watercolor).
Azim Azimzadeh. “Wedding in the house of a rich family”. 1930s.
Paper, watercolor.
Azerbaijan National Museum of Art.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2022.
The processes carried out on the exhibit during the restoration:
1. Disinfection.
2. Mechanical (dry) cleaning.
3. Dismantling (in the restoration process was noticed a paper, carelessly glued to the back side of the artwork. Due to the fact that the glue for duplication was selected incorrectly, it burned and bleached some parts of the artwork. That paper was dismantled from the artwork).
4. Restoration of lost parts (the lost parts were filled with paper corresponding to the exhibit).
5. The artwork was duplicated on a new paper basis, corresponding to the exhibit.
6. The exhibit was put under the press.
7. Toning with watercolor and colored pencil lead, ground into powder.
8. Passepartout (mounting).
Ivan Shishkin. “Backyard”. 19th century.
Etching.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2022.
The processes carried out on the exhibit during the restoration:
After the mechanical cleaning, the exhibit was subjected to dry cleaning (to clean the stains). The lost parts of the artwork were filled with paper, corresponding to it, and the artwork was put under the press. The tinting of the exhibit was done, where it was needed. Then the artwork was put in passepartout.
Alisattar Salimov. “Kandirbazlar”. Size [81x63 sm].
Paper, watercolor.
Azerbaijan State Art Gallery.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2023.
The processes carried out on the exhibit during the restoration:
1. Disinfection.
2. Mechanical (dry) cleaning.
3. Restoration of lost parts (the lost parts were filled with paper corresponding to the exhibit).
4. The artwork was duplicated on a new paper basis, corresponding to the exhibit.
5. The exhibit was put under the press.
6. Toning (with watercolor and colored pencil lead, ground into powder).
Passepartout (mounting).
Alisattar Salimov. “Warm ground”. Size [82x63 sm].
Paper, watercolor.
Azerbaijan State Art Gallery.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2023.
The processes carried out on the exhibit during the restoration:
1. Disinfection.
2. Mechanical (dry) cleaning.
3. Restoration of lost parts (the lost parts were filled with paper corresponding to the exhibit).
4. The artwork was duplicated on a new paper basis, corresponding to the exhibit.
5. The exhibit was put under the press.
6. Toning (with watercolor).
Passepartout (mounting).
Mirza Gadim Iravani. “Portrait of a young woman”. 19th century.
Azerbaijan National Museum of Art.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2022.
The processes carried out on the exhibit during the restoration:
1. Disinfection.
2. Mechanical (dry) cleaning.
3. Amputation of moldy parts.
4. Restoration of lost parts (the lost parts were filled with paper corresponding to the exhibit).
5. The artwork was duplicated on a new paper basis, corresponding to the exhibit.
6. The exhibit was put under the press.
7. Toning (with watercolor).
Passepartout (mounting).
Poster. 1994th.
The House Museum of Sabit Rahman.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2022.
The processes carried out on the exhibit during the restoration:
1. Disinfection.
2. Mechanical (dry) cleaning.
3. Restoration of lost parts (the lost parts were filled with paper corresponding to the exhibit).
4. The artwork was duplicated on a new paper basis, corresponding to the exhibit.
The exhibit was put under the press.
A performance program “Hell”.
House Museum of Uzeyir Hajibeyov.
Paper.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2022.
The processes carried out on the exhibit during the restoration:
1. Disinfection.
2. Mechanical (dry) cleaning.
3. Restoration of lost parts (the lost parts were filled with paper corresponding to the exhibit).
4. Duplication of the exhibit.
The exhibit was put under the press.
Quran. 18-19th centuries.
Paper pages in a leather cover.
Sabirabad Museum of History and Country Studies.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2022.
The processes carried out on the exhibit during the restoration:
1. Disinfection.
2. Removing the pages from the cover (dismantiling).
3. Mechanical (dry) cleaning.
4. Washing of the artwork in a special bath.
5. Restoration of lost parts of the pages.
6. Duplication of papers (only the pages that needed).
7. Putting under the press.
8. Restoration of lost parts of the cover of the book.
9. Duplication of the cover on a special material, corresponding to the original material of the cover.
Putting it under the press.
Fan. Japan. 18-19th century.
The Azerbaijan National Museum of Art.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2022.
The processes carried out on the exhibit during the restoration:
1. Disinfection.
2. Mechanical (dry) cleaning.
3. Wet cleaning of the guards and sticks of the fan (with cotton swab).
4. The broken guard and sticks of the fan were restored. The lost part of one of the sticks was filled with special material.
5. Those parts were put under the press.
6. The separated and torn parts of the exhibit were fixed. As needed, pieces of a special paper were glued to some parts of the fan.
7. The exhibit was put under the press.
8. The lost parts of the leafs were filled with paper.
9. The exhibit was put under the press.
Toning (with watercolor and acrylic colors).
A private object. Paper cash, a paper (with erased numbers of camp comrades), a piece of a strap and pieces of shoulder straps left over from the dead soldier Farid Askerov during the Second Karabakh War.
Year of restoration of the exhibit- 2021.
The processes carried out on these items during the restoration:
1. Disinfection of all items.
2. Washing of all of the items in a special bath with distilled water (to clean the blood stains mixed with the ground).
3. All of these items were put under the press.
4. The inscriptions on the shoulder straps were restored with acrylic colors and colored pencil lead, ground into powder. (In order to recreate the stale appearance of the inscriptions, they were specially made with yellowness).
5. Torn pieces of paper were fixed.
6. Some of the erased inscriptions on the paper were restored.
7. The paper was duplicated on both (front and back) sides.
8. The paper was put under the press.
P.s.: In order to preserve the history and authenticity of these items, it was decided not to remove the stains of blood clearly.
