The summer issue of Art News reports that the Maxfield Parrish painting of Old King Cole that has surveyed the goings-on for the past 75 years in the King Cole Bar at New York's St. Regis Hotel has just been rehung after a five-month $100,000 cleaning.
Harriet Irgang, director of Rubin Levenson Art Conservation Associates, said that over the years the painting had become covered in dents, gouges, and distorting layers of nicotine and grime. With the process of restoration now complete, however, it is clear from the king's sheepish grin and the startled jesters by his side that the subject of the painting is flatulence. "I've come to understand that it is a very democratic vision," Irgang says.
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