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A Favourable Outcome
Mercedes Orihuela Maeso, Conservator of the Service of Deposits, 1975-What's onA Favourable Outcome
Mercedes Orihuela Maeso, Conservator of the Service of Deposits, 1975-What's on
We’re talking about many years in a country that has quite a conflict-ridden history. Since 1872 we’ve had Carlist Wars, dictatorships, civil wars and other things. In this respect, I’ve given you some quite extreme examples, but we should bear in mind that it could have been a lot worse; it could have meant total and absolute destruction. Which it wasn’t. But I have a theory that, right up until the 1970’s, there really was very little interest in this country in painting or in selling these paintings through antique-dealers. That means that when people saw a painting hanging on the wall, they saw it as part of the general furnishings and didn’t even inquire into who the painter was, when it came or what the hell it was doing there. This undoubtedly reflects a general lack of culture, but for the preservation and survival of the works deposited by the Museo del Prado, it’s been a stroke of good fortune. That’s the truth of the matter!
Conservator of the Museo del Prado since 1982. She began collaborating with the Museum in the 1970's, sorting documents and photographic archives. She documents and visits the depository institutions of works of the Museum, giving rise to the collection known as "Prado disperso" (Scattered Prado).
Interview recorded on April 08, 2018
Interview index
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Coming to this Museum since 1975 -
The First Task I Carried Out Was Quite Useful -
Everything Originated from a Formal Complaint -
The Considerable Challenge of the Prado Disperso -
The 1960’s: The First Exercises in Recovering Deposited Works -
The 1980’s: Working Side by Side with Pérez Sánchez -
Unusual Cases Regarding the Prado Disperso I: La batalla de San Marcial by Julio Aparicio -
Unusual Cases Regarding the Prado Disperso II: A Gift for a Dentist -
Unusual Cases Regarding the Prado Disperso III: At an Auction in London -
Unusual Cases Regarding the Prado Disperso IV: From Madrid to Caracas -
Unusual Cases Regarding the Prado Disperso V: The Independence of Cuba -
Unusual Cases Regarding the Prado Disperso VI: Una huelga de obreros en Vizcaya by Cutanda -
Unusual Cases Regarding the Prado Disperso VII: A Painting in the Open Air -
And We Continue to Come Across Works -
Probable Position of the Globe Before the Flood -
A Favourable Outcome -
A Shared Project -
The Political Vicissitudes of the Country and Management of the Museum -
Total Dedication -
My Current Situation at the Museum -
I’ve Worked a Long Time at This Institution
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Voces del Prado