PARIS: The Louvre has announced it plans to restore one of its most iconic works, the “Winged Victory of Samothrace” statue depicting the Greek goddess Nike.

A team of experts will oversee the 3 million euro ($4 million) restoration of the ancient Greek marble statue – one of the Paris museum’s three best-known pieces, along with the Mona Lisa and the Venus de Milo.

Repair work on the headless statue, which dates from between 220 B.C. and 185 B.C., is expected to start in September and take over a year to complete, though the work should be back on show in spring 2014.

Previously restored in 1934, this second touch-up entails cleaning up the statue and resolving a number of structural problems that were not addressed the first time, the museum said.