Friday, December 12, 12 – 1pm
Pablo Picasso. Young Woman Holding a Cigarette (detail), 1901. BF318. © 2025 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Free; registration required.
About the Talk
Christine Romano and Naina Saligram: “Picasso Revealed: New Findings in the Barnes Collection”
On-Site & Online Talk | Member Appreciation Days
The Barnes’s 22 paintings by Pablo Picasso were recently researched and analyzed as part of a collection study project funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. The project brought together Christine Romano, a conservator, and Naina Saligram, an art historian, to investigate the paintings’ materials, construction, and provenance. In this talk, Romano and Saligram share some of their exciting discoveries, including three “paintings under paintings” and new insights about Picasso’s working methods.
Speakers
Christine Romano
Romano is an associate paintings conservator at the Barnes, where she is currently treating Renoir’s The Henriot Family, with support from a Bank of America Conservation Project grant. She has previously worked on conservation projects at the National Gallery of Art, the Phillips Collection, and the Smithsonian Institute.
Naina Saligram
Saligram is a fellow researching the 46 works by Picasso in the Barnes. She has held curatorial, research, and teaching positions at the Philadelphia Art Museum and Yale University Art Gallery. Saligram has also taught Barnes classes on topics such as primitivism and surrealism.
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