Symposium on Picasso, Picabia and Ernst

Symposium

Picasso, Picabia, Ernst: New Perspectives"
Clore Auditorium
Tate Britain
Millbank
London
25 November 2016

A one-day symposium organized by Tate and The Clothworkers'
Foundation to mark the end of the Clothworkers' Fellowship 2014-2016
at Tate.

The 'Picasso Picabia Ernst' Symposium brings together conservators,
conservation scientists, curators, art historians, professionals,
and students to discuss the work of these three key artists from the
early-twentieth century.

Ticket price of UKP78.00 (UKP48.00 concessions) to include lunch and
refreshments.  Full price tickets also include postprints, to be
published after the symposium by Archetype Publications Ltd.

Tickets can be bought on the Tate website:

    <URL:http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/conference/symposium-picasso-picabia-ernst>

Programme

    09.00 - 09.30           Registration

    09.30 - 09.45           Welcome by

                                Deborah Potter
                                Head of Conservation, Tate, London

    09.45 - 11.00           Session 1:  Early Picasso

                                "Three Dancers and the Devil: Andre
                                Breton and Picasso's Painting"

                                    Marilyn McCully
                                    Independent Picasso Scholar,
                                    London

                                "Picasso's 'The Three Dancers',
                                1925"

                                    Annette King
                                    Clothworkers' Fellow 2014-2016,
                                    Paintings Conservator, Tate,
                                    London

                                "Picasso 1901: 'Girl with a Dove'"

                                    Aviva Burnstock
                                    Head of Conservation and
                                    Technology, Courtauld Institute
                                    of Art, London

                                Q&A led by

                                    Lizzy Cowling
                                    Professor Emeritus, Art History,
                                    University of Edinburgh

    11.00 - 11.30           Break, refreshments provided in foyer

    11.30 - 12.45           Session 2:  Early Picabia

                            "Francis Picabia's Early Abstract
                            Paintings"

                                Michael Duffy
                                Paintings Conservator, Museum of
                                Modern Art, New York

                            "Francis Picabia's 'Midi (Promenade des
                            Anglais)': A Landscape Painted with
                            Pasta and Feathers"

                                Cynthia Schwarz
                                Associate Conservator of Paintings,
                                Yale University Art Gallery, New
                                Haven

                            "'Like a child making piles of sand by
                            the sea...', Creation and Destruction in
                            Three Works by Francis Picabia"

                                Annette King
                                Clothworkers' Fellow 2014-2016,
                                Paintings Conservator, Tate, London

                            Q&A led by

                                Joyce Townsend
                                Senior Conservation Scientist, Tate,
                                London

    12.45 - 14.00           Lunch provided in foyer

    14.00 - 15.15           Session 3:  Late Picasso

                                "Picasso 1932: Art and Life"

                                    Nancy Ireson
                                    Curator, Tate Modern, London

                                "'The Studio (L'Atelier)', 1928 by
                                Pablo Picasso"

                                    Sandra Divari
                                    Conservator, Peggy Guggenheim
                                    Collection, Venice

                                "Some Notes on Enamel Paints and
                                Modernism"

                                    Maria Kokkori
                                    Conservation Scientist, The Art
                                    Institute of Chicago

                                Q&A led by

                                    Marilyn McCully
                                    Independent Picasso Scholar

    15.15 - 15.45           Break, refreshments provided in foyer

    15.45 - 17.00           Session 4:  Late Picabia and Ernst

                                "The Technical Investigation and
                                Treatment of a Group of Five Late
                                Works by Francis Picabia 1947-1951:
                                Re-use of Supports and Resulting
                                Complex Condition Issues"

                                    Gwendolyn Boeve-Jones
                                    Conservator, Redivivus, The
                                    Hague

                                "Francis Picabia's 'Portrait d'un
                                Couple': Sources, Techniques,
                                Context"

                                    Talia Kwartler
                                    Curatorial Assistant, Department
                                    of Painting and Sculpture,
                                    Museum of Modern Art, New York

                                "Ernst's Painting Processes"

                                    Joyce Townsend
                                    Senior Conservation Scientist,
                                    Tate, London

                                Q&A led by

                                    Annette King
                                    Clothworkers' Fellow 2014-2016,
                                    Paintings Conservator, Tate,
                                    London

    17.00 - 17.30               Final discussion led by

                                    Lizzy Cowling, Professor
                                    Emeritus, University of
                                    Edinburgh

    17.30 - 19.30               Drinks in the foyer

Posters

    "A Technical Study of Reverse Foxing in Van Gelder Zonen Papers
    and its Incidence in Pablo Picasso's 'La Suite des
    Saltimbanque'"

        Josefine Werthmann
        Conservator, Conrest GmbH, Munich

    "Recent Macro XRF Scanning of 'Le Pauvre', 1903 by Picasso"

        Thierry Ford
        Paintings Conservator, The National Museum of Art,
        Architecture and Design, Oslo

    in collaboration with

        Geert Van der Snickt
        University of Antwerp

    "The Creation and Present Appearance of Francis Picabia's
    'Portrait of a Doctor'"

        Joyce H Townsend
        Senior Conservation Scientist, Tate

        Bronwyn Ormsby
        Principal Conservation Scientist, Tate

        Annette King
        Clothworkers' Fellow 2014-16, Tate

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