NEW YORK, NY.- In over four decades of business, Eli Wilner & Company has been trusted to frame some of the most valuable paintings by Picasso, his contemporaries, and an extensive list of works by other European artists for esteemed private collections, museums, and auction houses.

Museum curators from European Paintings departments across the U.S. and Canada have turned to Wilner’s expertise for reframing and restoration projects in recent years, including the Eskenazi Museum of Art, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, RISD Museum of Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, among others. Many of these projects have been made possible in part by Eli Wilner & Company’s ongoing matching funds for museum programs.

As of July 2025, Eli Wilner & Company’s frame funding initiative is announcing another round of $150,000 available for distribution in partial grants. Exciting new projects continue to be submitted on a daily basis by museums across the country. Remaining funds will be committed to new projects by August 31, 2025, and can be used for frame restoration, historic frame replication, or mirror replication projects. Interested institutions can apply by emailing the details of their reframing or frame restoration needs to info@eliwilner.com. No project is too large.


Documentary photograph of the lost frame on Picasso’s “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust” from a 1932 Georges Petit exhibition, curated by Picasso himself.


Pablo Picasso, “Nude, Green Leaves and Bust”, Painted on 8 March 1932, 63¾ x 51¼ inches, in a shaped and gilded replica frame by Eli Wilner & Company for Sotheby’s. Sale price $106,500,000

Pablo Picasso's Dora Maar au Chat (1941), which sold at Sotheby’s for $95,000,000, framed with an Eli Wilner replica of a 17th century Dutch style period frame, featuring an ebonized finish and gilded ornament at the sight edge:


Pablo Picasso's “Dora Maar au Chat” (1941), 51 x 38 inches, in a replica frame by Eli Wilner & Company for Sotheby’s. Sale price $95,000,000.

Eli Wilner & Company has reframed and restored frames for masterpieces by many European artists ranging from the 15th to 20th Centuries for museums, collectors, and auction houses across the U.S. and Canada. Some important examples include:


Claude Monet, “The Palazzo Ducale, Seen from San Giorgio Maggiore (Le Palais Ducal vu de Saint-Georges Majeur)”, 1908, oil on canvas, 25 9/16 x 39 9/16 inches, on view in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Photograph by David Heald.


Edouard Manet’s “Le Repos”, in the collection of the RISD Museum, with its period frame restored by Eli Wilner & Company.


Paul Gauguin, 'Still Life with Bowl,' framed with a hand-carved and gilded replica of an 18th century French style frame with a cross-hatched ground created by Eli Wilner & Company, in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.


Paul Cezanne's 'Victor Choquet,' framed with a shaped and painted replica of a European period frame created by Eli Wilner & Company, in the collection of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.


Sébastien Bourdon (French, 1616 - 1671), “The Holy Family with Sts. Elizabeth and Infant John the Baptist”, about 1660–1665, oil on wood, 29 3⁄4 x 40 3⁄4 inches. Replica frame by Eli Wilner & Company. Image courtesy of Dayton Art Institute.


Jean Joseph Benjamin Constant, “Evening on the Terrace” (Morocco), 1879, approximately 48 ½ x 78 1/8 inches, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Replica frame by Eli Wilner & Company.


“Portrait of Henry VII”, probably after Meynnart Wewyck, 1504/09, tempera and oil on panel, approximately 12 5/8 × 9 inches, Milwaukee Museum of Art. Replica frame by Eli Wilner & Company


“The Adoration of the Magi and The Resurrection”, ca. 1490, attributed to Master of the Holy Kinship, oil on panel, each approximately 54 x 37 inches, in the collection of the Eskenazi Museum of Art, in replica frames by Eli Wilner & Company.


“Bandits” by Salvator Rosa (1615-1673), Aiken-Rhett House Museum in Charleston, SC, with period frame restored by Eli Wilner & Company


“Beauty in a Marble Room” by John William Godward, on view at Sotheby’s New York, in a replica frame by Eli Wilner & Company.

Eli Wilner & Company has completed over 15,000 framing projects for private collectors, museums, and institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and The White House. Wilner was honored by the Historic Charleston Foundation with the Samuel Gaillard Stoney Conservation Craftsmanship Award, for their work in historic picture frame conservation. In 2024, Eli Wilner was presented with an Iris Award for Outstanding Dealer of the Year by the Bard Graduate Center in New York City.