Vincent Van Gogh took to painting on both sides of the canvas when he was low on money, but over the years some of his paintings were covered up and were unidentified. Recently, they’ve discovered a new painting and it is in the National Galleries of Scotland.
“Moments like this are incredibly rare,” Frances Fowle, senior curator of French art, said. “We have discovered an unknown work by Vincent van Gogh, one of the most important and popular artists in the world.”
It was revealed by an X-ray of an 1885 painting by Van Gogh, and it was a Head of a Peasant Woman. It was covered with glue and cardboard.
Experts say that paintings were applied in the 20th century, before the art went on display.
“When we saw the X-ray for the first time of course we were hugely excited. Such a major discovery happens once, twice in a conservator’s lifetime,” senior paintings conservator Lesley Stevenson said in a video released by the museum. “To have an image as elusive as it presently is something very, very special.”
The museum described the painting as “a bearded sitter in a brimmed hat with a neckerchief loosely tied at the throat.
This painting is not the only painting that has been discovered as there was also another now in Amsterdam. This painting will probably not be the last one.
“Moments like this are incredibly rare,” Frances Fowle, senior curator of French art, said. “We have discovered an unknown work by Vincent van Gogh, one of the most important and popular artists in the world.”
It was revealed by an X-ray of an 1885 painting by Van Gogh, and it was a Head of a Peasant Woman. It was covered with glue and cardboard.
Experts say that paintings were applied in the 20th century, before the art went on display.
“When we saw the X-ray for the first time of course we were hugely excited. Such a major discovery happens once, twice in a conservator’s lifetime,” senior paintings conservator Lesley Stevenson said in a video released by the museum. “To have an image as elusive as it presently is something very, very special.”
The museum described the painting as “a bearded sitter in a brimmed hat with a neckerchief loosely tied at the throat.
This painting is not the only painting that has been discovered as there was also another now in Amsterdam. This painting will probably not be the last one.
