Holst Fine Art

Our Services

Conservation, Consulting & Valuing

Art Conservation

Easel paintings –
Oils, acrylics, and mixed media
  • Surface clean
  • Tear and hole repairs
  • Removal of accretions (fly-spots, dried liquid residue etc)
  • Discoloured varnish removal
  • In-paint losses
  • Over-paint removal
  • Application of new varnish
  • Stretching of canvas/ stretcher replacements
  • Flattening dents and bulges
  • Removal and treatment of surface bloom, blanching and mould
  • Relining
  • Fire, smoke and water damage
  • Surface consolidation (cracked and flaking paint)
  • Art conservation report (before and after condition and treatment documentation/photography)
Works of art on paper –
Watercolours, prints, pencil and ink drawings, gouache, pastel, charcoal, historical documents.
  • Surface clean
  • Removal of accretions (fly-spots, dried liquid residue etc)
  • Tape and adhesive removal
  • Removal of harmful acidic window mounts and backing boards
  • Removal/reduction of spots (foxing), stains and discolourations
  • Removal and treatment of mould
  • Flattening (removal/reduction of distortions)
  • Tear repairs
  • In-paint losses
  • Art conservation report (before and after condition and treatment documentation/photography)

Other Services

    • Insurance valuations for private and corporate collections
    • Institutional valuations
      (Registered Government valuer under the cultural gifts Program)
    • Certificate of authenticity
    • Collection advice
    • Curating and cataloguing
  • Framing advice and assistance
  • Historical research
  • Free assessment and quoting service
  • Photographic documentations
  • Fine art conservation report (condition and treatment report)

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Happy Clients

Sarah did the most beautiful job restoring my great grandmother’s oil painting. I trusted her completely with our family heirloom.

The workmanship was outstanding and it was turned around quickly and at a reasonable cost.

Thank you Sarah! 🙂

Ava T.

We are all absolutely delighted with the superb work you did in restoring this family treasure – no-one more than me who watched it mouldering away for over 60 years.

I’m confident that it will survive another ninety years looking as fresh as it did when it left your hands. Congratulations and thank you.

Natalie G.

OMG. I was thrilled with the restoration of my two rather large paintings that had decided to fall on top of each other – the top one dislodging the painting underneath it. One caught the corner of the TV leaving a gash, the other fell on the finial of a standing lamp leaving a deep hole.

Sarah came highly recommended by an antique auctioneer friend AND for good reason You would not know that any damage had ever occurred. I had to look at the back of the paintings to see where the damage had been. SO GOOD and am extremely appreciative of Sarah’s fine focus and care in restoring what I thought was impossible to ever make it original again THANK YOU Sarah MUCH appreciation

EVOLOVE S.

Holst Fine Art offers services to the Fine Art world of Melbourne.

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