Hidden Van Gogh self-portrait discovery

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  1. sabre123

    sabre123 Well-Known Member

    Excerpt from:
    https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...f-portrait-discovered-behind-earlier-painting

    It was on a Friday afternoon that they found him, staring intently from the back of a canvas in a wide-brimmed hat and loose neckerchief: a previously undiscovered self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh, one of the most popular and influential figures in western art history, which had been hiding in plain sight in the collection of the National Galleries of Scotland for more than half a century.

    “It was absolutely thrilling,” says Lesley Stevenson, senior paintings conservator at the National Galleries of Scotland, of the moment that a routine conservation X-ray of another Van Gogh painting, Head of a Peasant Woman, revealed this extraordinary find on the back of the canvas, hidden for more than 100 years beneath layers of glue and cardboard.

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    sabre123, Jul 14, 2022
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  2. laura9797

    laura9797 Well-Known Member

    I just heard about this on the news. Incredible find!!!
     
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  3. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    HOW AMAZING is THAT!!!!!!!!! WONDERFUL!!!!!!:singing::singing::):)
     
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