Established in 1907, the fine art conservation department at Lowy has a long history of preserving historic and artistic works of art. The painting and paper conservation studios treat works of art from all periods from old masters to contemporary works.
New Yorker Eric Pike, creative director of publications at Martha Stewart Living magazine, claims a lifelong fascination with a single painting: an unsigned portrait of Daniel Webster, the noted early 19th-century Massachusetts ...
“Conservation is absolutely essential to our business. I’ve been working with Larry and his team ... the last fifteen years or so. The first thing I look for is somebody who really knows what they’re doing. What I have found with Larry is he’s always been conservative, consistent, and he’s always brought a work back better than how I gave it to him. And he’s never hurt anything. When you entrust a valuable piece of art you have to be completely confident that there’s no risk. It really takes a professional conservator to analyze and determine some very complicated matters. You need to know and be able to analyze exactly what we’re looking at. Today’s buyer is very concerned about condition. It’s more than a service, it’s really something we’ve come to rely on.”
