The National Galleries of Scotland conservation team is preparing 20 iconic plates from Henri Matisse’s artist book Jazz for display at the forthcoming exhibition, A Taste for Impressionism, at the Royal Scottish Academy.
In this video, originally presented to a professional body of conservation professionals in May 2022, Senior Conservation Technician (Paper) Sarah Laing talks through the technical and ethical challenges the team faced in mounting and framing the plates.
Scroll down to view photographs documenting the process.