Watercolour

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Do watercolour paintings fade in the light over the years?
Turner watercolours look pretty fresh still after 200 odd years, but is that because they have been kept in storage most of the time?

thanks

[Canary42]

Water colours should not be exposed to prolonged sunlight as they will fade.

See

http://www.ehow.com/how_13673_preserve-waterco lor-painting.html

or

http://www.ethnicpaintings.com/painting-trivia /preserving-paintings2.html