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The photodegradation of cadmium yellow paints in Henri Matisse’s Le Bonheur de vivre (1905–1906) |
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| Authors: | Jennifer L Mass Robert Opila Barbara Buckley Marine Cotte Jonathan Church Apurva Mehta |
| Institution: | 1. Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory, Conservation Department, Winterthur Museum, Winterthur, DE, 19735, USA 2. Materials Science and Engineering, DuPont Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, 19716, USA 3. Department of Conservation, The Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA, 19130, USA 4. ESRF, Polygone Scientifique Louis Neel, 6 rue Jules Horowitz, 38000, Grenoble, France 5. LAMS (Laboratoire d’Archéologie Moléculaire et Structurale) UMR-8220, 3 rue Galilée, 94200, Ivry-sur-Seine, France 6. SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA |
| Abstract: | Evidence for the alteration of the yellow paints in Henri Matisse’s Le Bonheur de vivre (1905–1906, The Barnes Foundation) has been observed since the 1990s. The changes in this iconic work of Matisse’s Fauvist period include lightening, darkening, and flaking of the yellow paints. Handheld X-ray fluorescence (XRF) and multispectral imaging surveys reveal that the degradation is confined to cadmium yellow (CdS) paints. The discoloration of cadmium yellow paints in Impressionist, Post-Impressionist and early modernist work from the 1880s through the 1920s has been ascribed to the photo-oxidative degradation of CdS. Preliminary investigations of the degraded yellow paints in this work involved Cd LIII-edge X-ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy (XANES) at the Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Light Source (SSRL Menlo Park, California) and Scanning Electron Microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray analysis (SEM-EDS) at the Winterthur Museum Scientific Research and Analysis Laboratory. To determine if the visual changes in the paints did in fact indicate photo-oxidative degradation and if different chemistries could be observed for the lightened versus darkened regions, synchrotron radiation-micro Fourier Transform InfraRed (SR-μFTIR) spectroscopy, X-ray Fluorescence (SR-μXRF) mapping and micro X-ray Absorption Near Edge Spectroscopy (μXANES) mapping at the Cd LIII-edge of the altered paint cross-sections were carried out at the European synchrotron radiation facility (ESRF, Grenoble, France) beamline ID-21. The goal is to elucidate the discoloration mechanisms observed in the paint using elemental and speciation mapping. The μXANES mapping and SR-FTIR imaging showed a substantial enrichment of CdCO3 in the off-white surface crust of the faded/discolored CdS paint. This suggests that the CdCO3 is present as an insoluble photodegradation product rather than solely a paint filler or starting reagent. Additionally, oxalates and sulfates were found to be concentrated at the alteration surface. |
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