"The research carried out into nine key works in the Tate collection by these three artists ... has made fascinating and new discoveries. In most cases there are paintings beneath the image we see today, so imaging as well as microscopy and analysis has been a huge part of this project, in a far reaching collaboration between conservators, conservation scientists, art historians photographers and imaging specialists"--Acknowledgements. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Adding and removing: two Surrealist paintings by Max Ernst from the Menil Collection, Houston / Ellen Hanspach-Bernal and Anikó Bezur. Macro-XRF scanning of Picasso's Ménage de pauvres: a case study / Thierry Ford, Geert Van der Snickt and Koen Janssens -- A technical examination of Picasso's Child with a Dove 1901 / Aviva Burnstock, Barnaby Wright and Klaas Jan van den Berg -- A note on André Breton and Three Dancers and the Devil / Marilyn McCully -- The Three Dancers 1925 by Picasso / Annette King, Joyce H. Townsend and Bronwyn Ormsby -- Picasso: art and life, 1932 / Nancy Ireson -- A technical study of reverse foxing in Van Gelder Zonen papers, and its incidence in Picasso's La Suite des Saltimbanques / Josefine Werthmann -- Francis Picabia: early abstract paintings 1912-14 / Michael Duffy -- 'Like a child making sandcastles by the sea...': creation and destruction in Tate paintings by Francis Picabia / Annette King, Joyce H. Townsend and Bronwyn Ormsby -- The consequences today of Francis Picabia's use of zinc white and lead white / Joyce H. Townsend, Annette King, Bronwyn Ormsby and Lora V. Angelova -- Francis Picabia's Promenade des Anglais (Midi): a landscape painted with pasta and feathers / Cynthia Schwarz and Frauke V. Josenhans -- The Hand 1935-36 by Francis Picabia: crackle lacquer technique as a strategy for dissent / Nathalie Bäschlin and Stefan Zumbühl -- Francis Picabia's Portrait of a Couple 1942-1943: sources, techniques, context / Talia Kwartler -- The technical investigation and treatment of a group of five late works by Francis Picabia 1947-51: reuse of supports and resulting complex condition issues / Gwendolyn P. Boevé-Jones, Magdalena Brela and Beatriz Lorente -- Max Ernst's painting processes in the early 1920s / Joyce H. Townsend and Annette King -- Adding and removing: two Surrealist paintings by Max Ernst from the Menil Collection, Houston / Ellen Hanspach-Bernal and Anikó Bezur.
Summary:
New perspectives on some of Tate's key paintings by Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso and Max Ernst are presented, as the conclusion of a two-year study into their history, context, materials and techniques. The project was carried out by Tate paintings conservator Annette King, funded by the Clothworkers Foundation, London, working with Tate conservation scientists Dr Joyce Townsend and Dr Bronwyn Ormsby. A number of international art historians, conservators and conservation scientists present new research into Picasso and Picabia, covering both their early and later periods of painting.
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