LONDON, July 14 (Reuters) – A self-portrait of Dutch post-Impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh has been uncovered hidden behind one in all his work.
Nationwide Galleries of Scotland stated on Thursday artwork conservators made the invention, believed to be a primary for a UK establishment, throughout an x-ray examination of Van Gogh’s 1885 paintings “Head of a Peasant Lady” for an upcoming exhibition.
It stated the x-ray confirmed “a bearded sitter in a brimmed hat with a neckerchief loosely tied on the throat. He fixes the viewer with an intense stare, the fitting aspect of his face in shadow and his left ear clearly seen”.
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The picture was hidden behind cardboard and layers of glue.
“Once we noticed the x-ray for the primary time in fact we had been vastly excited,” senior work conservator Lesley Stevenson stated in a video shared by Nationwide Galleries of Scotland.
“Such a significant discovery occurs as soon as, twice in a conservator’s lifetime… To have a picture, as elusive because it presently is, is one thing very, very particular.”
Van Gogh is thought to have typically re-used his canvases, engaged on their reverse as nicely.
Nationwide Galleries of Scotland stated its consultants had been taking a look at learn how to take away the glue and cardboard masking the self-portrait with out damaging “Head of a Peasant Lady”.
The x-ray picture will characteristic on the July 30-Nov. 13 exhibition, referred to as “A Style for Impressionism”, on the Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh.
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Reporting by Marie-Louise Gumuchian; Modifying by Janet Lawrence
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