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Unusual Cases Regarding the Prado Disperso II: A Gift for a Dentist
Mercedes Orihuela Maeso, Conservator of the Service of Deposits, 1975-What's onUnusual Cases Regarding the Prado Disperso II: A Gift for a Dentist
Mercedes Orihuela Maeso, Conservator of the Service of Deposits, 1975-What's on
During the different visits that we undertook in order to check on our deposited works, all kinds of things have happened to us; such as when we searched a certain Convent in Madrid for a work that had disappeared and the Mother Superior told us, “let’s see if it might be the work that we gave to the dentist who removed Sister So-and-So’s molar”. We immediately contacted the police, but there was no way of locating the dentist, due to the fact that they didn’t know who he was and it wasn’t even clear whether the work had, in effect, been given to the dentist. Perhaps they had sold it in order to fix the revolving window that had broken.
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
Theme
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Voces del Prado