The international symposium Around Picasso: An insight into the relationship between material choices and failure mechanisms, held at the Museu Picasso de Barcelona in 2018, was a multidisciplinary forum coordinated by the museum’s Department of ...
Category Restoration
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Luxury protection for ‘Science and Charity’
At the beginning of 1897, when Picasso was only 15 years old, he started to paint a large canvas so as to present it at the Exhibition of Fine Arts in Madrid. It was Science ...
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More than 100 professionals participate in the international symposium about conservation and restoration «Around Picasso»
On 29th November, together with the Universitat Politècnica de València we organised the international symposium, «Around Picasso: an insight into the relationship between material choices and failure mechanisms» with the attendance of more than 120 ...
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The live restoration of “Science and Charity”
If you visit the museum these days you will be able to enjoy something not very habitual: the live restoration of what is considered to be the leading work from the formation of the artist, ...
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Two Portraits of an Unknown Person
Due to the rotation of the works of the permanent collection of the museum, two portraits of youth of the same person have been selected to be exhibited, which haven’t been on show to the ...
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Restoring the testimony of a relation
The restoration of a photographic negative on a glass plate, carried out by the Department of Restoration and Preventive Conservation of the museum, has widely contributed to the documentation around the life and work of ...
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MOLAB I – Following the Trail of Picasso: Reasoned Study of Six Portraits of Youth
I – Early stages of Picasso through material characterization of different portraits On November 27th we presented in the Lecture hall of the University of Barcelona a research project about the study of the technique ...
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Restoration of three landscapes produced by Picasso in Malaga in the summer of 1896
We recently undertook the restoration of three landscapes from the collection painted by the young Picasso in the summer of 1896. As we will explain further on, we consider that the series should be conceived ...