Idemitsu-sponsored restoration
CBC: Japanese firm donates cash to restore damaged Munch canvases
A Japanese firm has pledged more than $700,000 to help art restoration experts in Oslo repair Edvard Munch's masterpieces, The Scream and Madonna. Japanese company Idemitsu Petroleum will donate four million Norwegian krone to Oslo's Munch Museum for research into and the conservation of the two famed Munch canvases, Oslo officials said Wednesday...Founder Sazo Idemitsu had been a keen art collector and, in 1966, established the Idemitsu Museum in Tokyo to display some of his collection. In return for the company's support over the years, the Munch Museum has often lent its works for exhibitions at the Idemitsu, or other Tokyo museums or galleries.
