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NO doubt travelling exhibitions such as Turner - The Late Seascapes, now at Glasgow, create interest (Turner in the eye of the storm, February 20), but they come at a price, as was shown a few years ago in the arguments mounted against liberalising the restrictions on the Burrell Collection lending works. One price is the frequently hasty and ill-considered restoration of paintings preparatory to such shows.
This seems to have been the case with Turner's masterpiece Rockets and Blue Lights from the Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, which hitherto had an embargo against lending. Its restoration has ignored the evidence of Turner's title (indicating that the painting originally had more than one steamship) and of early copies such as the one made by Whistler, so that Turner's bold and innovative design is now decomposed.See the full content of this document
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