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September 2017, the 1950s surgery center the stairwell had once attached to had been demolished and a new hospital building had been constructed. The mural now stands as a "totem" and centerpiece of the hospital gardens.
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visual harmony of the mural," and that "the black lines themselves had suffered from extreme seasonal changes in temperature, lifting and peeling away from the tower over about eighty percent of the surface".
361:"The complex preservation of Keith Haring's 1987 mural at the Hopital Necker des Enfants Malades, Paris by Will Shank + Antonio Rava | International Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works"
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Juan Rivera. They completed the mural over the course of three days without the use of preparatory sketches, using a crane to suspend themselves from the top of the structure.
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