In 1986, Anny Aviram, Associate Conservator in the Department of Conservation, accompanied The Museum of Modern Art's Water Lilies triptych to Basel, Switzerland. Its inclusion in the exhibition Claude Monet, Nymphéas at the Kunstmuseum, provided a unique opportunity to study the Museum's triptych next to other late works of Monet that had not experienced the triptych's history of damage and consequent "treatments" (a term used by conservators to describe the range of applications, from cleaning to restoration) that a work of art may require...
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