"Picasso in the Metropolitan Museum of Art": An investigation of materials and techniques

Journal of the American Institute for Conservation

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 140-155

  Arslanoglu, Julie ^a   Centeno, Silvia A ^a   Digney Peer, Shawn ^a   Duvernois, Isabelle ^a  

^a METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART   (United States)

Author keywords

Binding medium; House paints; Infrared reflectography; Picasso; Pigments; X ray radiography

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886489989     PISSN: 01971360     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/1945233013Y.0000000007     Document Type: Article

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