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Conservator’s Perspective

Gallery Talk

Gallery Talk

Included in admission to special exhibition; free for members

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Phillips Conservator Patricia Favero discusses Pablo Picasso’s double-sided canvas The Absinthe Drinker / Woman in the Theatre (1901).

The Absinthe Drinker

Pablo Picasso, The Absinthe Drinker (1901)

Woman at the Theater

Pablo Picasso, Woman at the Theater (1901)

Event Details

Phillips Conservator Patricia Favero discusses Pablo Picasso’s double-sided canvas The Absinthe Drinker / Woman in the Theatre (1901), comparing the artist’s process in the two paintings and shedding light on Picasso’s decision to re-use the canvas and his stylistic development.