Getty Center to restore key Jackson Pollock work

Published June 26, 2012 8:59pm ET



LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Mural,” the seminal, larger-than-life work that represented a sea change in abstract expressionist Jackson Pollock’s career, will be traveling from Iowa to Los Angeles this summer for a little nip and tuck.

The painting, which is nearly 70 years old, is being shipped to the Getty Center, where scientists at the Getty’s Conservation Institute and curators at its J. Paul Getty Museum hope to restore it to pristine condition.

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