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10001,#2Author of original report
Wed, May 26, 2010
Joe Barabe had me cut the mat of the original framing to mislead me when the question of titanium was only found in little quantities on the edge of the art discovered by a different bone black pigment found in the McCrone data than the charcoal in the center.
Mr Barabe never told me there was a different black present to showing there was restoration.
Instead incompetent and destructive Joesph Barabe ordered me to curt a big corner of the mat and for him to examine to see of the reason of the little titanium found.
Sadly i trusted this guy, he seemed to be honest.
How did Joseph Barabe miss a different black found on the edgeon a work of art and not tell me.
It breaks my heart how destructive Josph Barabe was on an imprtant work of art.
Repeat Joe Barabe never used a photograph in a 5 page report that was found to have full of defect,. so many Dr McCrone came to my house to try to fix things. Dr McCrone admitted Joe Barabe made mistakes writing the McCrone Renoir Pastel Report. I have it on tape and a book signed by him when he came to my house saying I was right. Sadly McCrone Associates covered up the mistakes not fixing them.
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10001,#3Author of original report
Thu, March 18, 2010
Joe Barabe is a photographer but never used any photo while writing the Renoir report and lost the photo I gave him. I wonder if he did that on purpose.
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10001,#4Author of original report
Fri, March 05, 2010
To conclude the reason for this compliant on this site is Joe Barabe has been lecturing about the pastel I own without permission and this is reason for my complaint or me being there. Nor has he has ever communicated with me after Dr. McCrone cut a second sample off the Renoir pastel paper.
The main for my complaint is as follows:
1. McCrone Associates and Dr mcCrone in a fax said pastel not blowing away. Pastel does migrate and blow away. Joe Barabe nor Dr MCrone never told me it would affect dating using Mccrone Associates methods. Joe Barabe also writes that he should dig into the signature and take more samples which would be useles. Digging in pastel with a needle is not only damaging but it's like digging in sand.
2. McCrone Associates, Joe Barabe, Dr Walter McCrone could have discovered the paper Renoir used over a year and half time after I pleaded with them. Instead McCrone Associates promised they would use an electron microscope on the paper and did not.
I found out 2 years later there going to the Netherlands and seing the Dutch paper, scientists conservation experts, I learned that there are about 5 different organic chemicals in the paper Renoir used and this chemical can be measured and compared to other Renoir's.
Joe Barabe made up a date in a scientific report. According to Hunter's Paper Making the sulphite process began in 1857 and was perfected in the 1870's but for some unscientific and subjective reason MCrone Associates and Joe Barbie said 1905 for a non-techinical reason. No literature was ever offered by McCrone Associates for this subjective date. . To this day they refuse to learn about the paper Renoir used.
3 Joeseph Barabe and Dr Walter McCrone cut two large corners off the pastel paper on two different occasion and never detected a starch coating in the paper where as I have 4 art conservators reports stating coating found . Why did MCrone Associates not detect starch with there plain eye or a magnifying glass. or his highpowered eye wear Joe uses.
There all kinds of organic materials that were found by the Dutch scientists that McCrone Associates and Joe Barabe did not detect. If I had the money i would sue them. Turns out Renoir's paper he used for the studies during 1883-1884 had a coating on it.
4, Mccrone Associates in their Renoir report I paid for never mentioned lithopone being used as a new white in the late19th century in report. Why when it was used?
5. After paying $2000.00 to McCrone Associates, Joe Barabe did not tell me in the their 5 page report that there was a different second black pigment (called bone black) found in the McCrone data going around the entire edge of the pastel and the center of the pastel was found to have charcoal. There was negligence by Joe Barabe of McCRone Associates by not telling me. Instead joe Babe writes it migh be a matt burn. matt Burns are brown not black so what Joe Barbe wrote was out of ignorance about art.
if Mccrone Associates had detected
this in their own MCrone data after 6 months of writing a 5 page report, they would have discovered restoration
on the entire edge of the drawing. When i found this black on the edge in the data that is when Dr. McCrone came to my house saying he was going help but never did. Why?
The Dutch Renoir paper discovery Renoir Paper Authentication Report (which contains the MCrone data) by
Dr. Henk Porck and Mr. Adriaan Kardinaal Amsterdam, is so precise that Dr. Margaret Peggy Ellis of New York University and International Foundation for Art Research can not dispute the great art discovery and thanked me for the the Dutch report. McCrone Associates are unable to dispute the Dutch paper report.
graphs.
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10001,#5Author of original report
Tue, March 02, 2010
To Get my money Joe Barabe said he knew Renoir's paper but never told me . To this day McCrone Associates refuses to tell me or investigate the paper Renoior's used, which was very special. You have to be some kind of mean hurtful person to withold important information for authentication, Joe Barabe knowing and keeping this information from a person who paid MCCrone Associates $2000.00 just to do that, investigate Renoir's paper and never did to intentionally hurt the history of Renoir.
That is when I went to Europe in 2001. I
was suggested by the University of Maine to contact: the INTERNATIONAL
ASSOCIATION OF PAPER HISTORIANS and and was referred to Dr Henk Pork
who has made great discoveries to preserve books and other paper
discoveries. Dr Pork's reply to my request was that he would help. Mr.
Kardinaal made a team of 20 people in 2002 to do the testing and
research. It took one year to finish the report.
Luckily two years later, going to Europe, a report was completed in December of 2002.
For
the full Dutch 30 page Renoir paper report on the paper the pastel is
on go to: http://www.onderzoeksbureau-defacto.nl/index_en.html
Joe Barabe told me all mediums are basically the same. What Joe Barabe said is flat out false. Pastel will blow away, fall off due to vibration. Oil paint does not do this.
When I asked Dr. Walter McCrone aboue about pastel and pastel dust migrating or moving aound on the surface of the art work and falling off (un-like oil paint or acyrilic that is stable) how this affects dating art work. Dr McCrone faxed me and wrote that pastel does not blow away. Dr. McCrone intentionally tried to persuade me that pastel does not move around or blow to hurt a work of art.
One last note about the McCrone Associates Renoir reports. In the
reports it's suggest to research Renoir' paper. Why did they not to do
it? They promised they would when they took my money. McCrone
Associates should know the paper Renoir used.
Luckily two years later, going to Europe, a report was completed in December of 2002.
For
the full Dutch 30 page Renoir paper report on the paper the pastel is
on go to: http://www.onderzoeksbureau-defacto.nl/index_en.html
The
Dutch Renoir paper report discovery by Adriaan Kardinaal and Dr. Henk
Pork, Amsterdam, is so precise that Dr. Margaret Peggy Ellis of New
York University and International Foundation for Art Research can not
dispute the great art discovery and thanked me for the the Dutch report.
Joe Barabe why did i have go to Europe to learn about Renoir's paper and make up date he created out of thin air. i am shocked at Joe for being so imprecise. Why did he do it? I never got a reason.
I am very hurt by it because I trusted McCrone Associates and McCrone Associates did this weird science on a very important work of art that was attributed to the artist by the expert because I found flawed mistake in there report about pastel and paper. Strange the McCrone data they produced was excellent, it discovered restoration but they never said that in McCrone report.