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The Mess behind Picasso’s Genius {Preserve Your Story ~ Day 16}

by Darcy Wiley | Nov 5, 2012 | Pencils & Pens, Preserve Your Story {31 Days}

She takes her paint-less brush to Picasso’s canvas and flakes off bits of glue meant to salvage the painting after a thief slashed it in Paris in the 1950s. Here and now in the care of the Guggenheim, a conservator works on it more than a year, centimeter by...