How Yves Klein’s blue painting is restored



How do you restore a painting made of a single, iconic color?

Watch as a conservator carefully restores the iconic “Blue Monochrome” by Yves Klein. Using samples of original paint from the back of the work, the surface is carefully rebuilt like a “skin graft” for color.

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