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IAG’s tender hands

[ October 5, 2012   //   ]

British Airways and Iberia’s IAG Cargo moved 50 oil paintings belonging to the Fundación Guayasamín from Quito, Ecuador,to Madrid, Spain on October 2 for an exhibition in Cadiz. Appropriately, one of the pictures was Las Manos de la Ternura (‘Tender Hands’), along with Los Amantes. The paintings weighed a total of 6,200 kg in their protective packaging. The paintings were kept in a vertical position during the flight and were transported in air-conditioned lorries with special suspension systems on the ground. 

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