Money for conservation research

In the March 2, 2012 “Inside Art” column of The New York Times (“Cracking the Curious Case of Picasso’s Ghost Subject”), Carol Vogel notes that one of the projects which has been awarded a Bank of America Art Conservation Project Grant is the Guggenheim Museum’s analysis and treatment of Picasso’s “Woman Ironing”, 1904. While it has long been known that another image lies beneath the suface of the painting, until now the Guggenheim has not had the resources to do more than x-ray the work.