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The Dalí Museum Named As a 2016 Art Conservation Project Grant Recipient by Bank of America
On February 6, Bank of America Tampa Bay President Bill Goede presented $45,000 to the Dalí Museum to conserve three of its Masterworks.
The Dalí Museum received a $45,000 grant from the Bank of America 2016 Art Conservation Project to restore three Masterworks paintings: “Portrait of My Dead Brother,” “Nature Morte Vivante (Still Life Fast-Moving),” and “Velasquez Painting the Infanta Marguerita with the Lights and Shadows of His Own Glory.”
The pieces will return to the Dalí Museum in September.
The Bank of America Art Conservation Project is a unique program that provides grants to nonprofit museums throughout the world to conserve historically or culturally significant works of art that are in danger of deterioration. Since the program’s launch in 2010, Bank of America has provided grants to museums in 29 countries supporting over 100 conservation projects. Projects in 2016 include "Blue Boy" a painting by Thomas Gainsborough at The Huntington Library in Los Angeles, a painting by Claude Monet at the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth, Texas; and an Andy Warhol piece at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago.
