Panel to Take Technical Look at Fauvism

“The Fauve Landscape: Issues of Art History and Conservation,” a symposium at the County Museum of Art on Saturday and Sunday, will address historical issues and reveal discoveries about Fauve paintings recently made in the museum’s conservation laboratory.

“It was my strong conviction that it was hardly worthwhile to bring all of these paintings from throughout the world to Los Angeles without having the opportunity to contribute something of a technical study to the rather limited information we’ve had to date of Fauve painting. Hence the symposium,” said curator Judi Freeman.

The symposium, scheduled for Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sunday, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.

Scholars and historians scheduled to speak on Saturday include John Elderfield, the Museum of Modern Art; Jack Flam, City University of New York; James D. Herbert, University of Texas; John Klein, Columbia University; Michael Parke-Taylor, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, and Inge-Vibeke Raaschou-Nielsen, State Museum of Art, Copenhagen.

On Sunday, a panel of conservators and restorers will join the discussion. Participants include Lucy Belloli, Metropolitan Museum of Art; Kristen Hoermann, Yale University Art Gallery; Andrea Rothe, J. Paul Getty Museum; Joseph Fronek and John Twilley, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Tickets $6 for the general public; $4 for members, students and seniors with ID.