THIS SUMMER THE MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN, ROTTERDAM, IS LETTING EVERYONE A PROCESS THAT IS USUALLY CARRIED OUT BEHIND CLOSED DOORS. FROM MID-JUNE THE ENORMOUS PAINTING 'LANDSCAPE WITH A GIRL SKIPPING ROPE' BY THE SURREALIST PAINTER SALVADOR DALI WILL UNDERGO A MIRACULOUS RESTORATION. YOU CAN FOLLOW THE SILENT SPECTACLE FOR TWO MONTHS IN THE SERRA GALLERY. THE PAINTING AND SIX OTHER DALIS FROM THE MUSEUM COLLECTION WILL THEN GO ON SHOW IN MILAN. THE MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN HAS A UNIQUE COLLECTION OF SURREALIST PAINTINGS BY ARTISTS SUCH AS RENE MARGRITTE, MAX ERNST AND SALVADOR DALI. THE PAINTING NOW BEING RESTORED COMES FROM THE COLLECTION OF EDWARD JAMES, AN IMPORTANT ENGLISH CLIENT OF DALI'S. IN 1936 HE COMMISSIONED HIM TO MAKE THE WORK FOR HIS HOUSE IN LONDON. THE PAINTING WAS DAMAGED DURING AN AIR RAID IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR. THE CENTER PANEL WAS THEN STORED ELSEWHERE AND THE SIDE PANELS WERE TRANSFERRED TO THE TATE GALLERY. THE PANELS WERE REUNITED AND RESTORED IN THE 1960s AND THEN FOUND THEIR WAY TO THE MUSEUM BOIJMANS VAN BEUNINGEN AS A LONG-TERM LOAN IN 1972. THE MUSEUM PURCHASED THE PAINTING IN 1977. DURING THE PUBLIC RESTORATION IN THE MUSEUM THE PAINTING WILL HANG ON A TEMPORARY WALL, SET OBLIQUELY IN THE SPACE. VISITORS WILL BE ABLE TO WATCH THE PROCESS AT CLOSE QUARTERS FROM BEHIND A BARRIER SO AS NOT TO DISTURB THE RESTORERS.
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