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NOS News•today, 03:14
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Experts from the Scottish Museum National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) have discovered a new self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh, reports NRC† The portrait is on the back of the canvas Head of a peasant woman with a white hat from 1885 and was found thanks to an X-ray.
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The portrait is hidden under a thick layer of glue and cardboard. The work was probably made in 1887, when Van Gogh was living in Paris. Experts made the X-ray during an investigation into the painting of the peasant woman from Nuenen.
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A BBC journalist posted the X-ray on Twitter:
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Chief Curator Lesley Stevenson says to the BBC that she was “in shock” when she saw the artist “looking at us”. “Obviously we were thrilled when we first saw the photo.” This is not the first time that Van Gogh has been shown to work on the backs of his paintings. He did that to save money.
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Head of a peasant woman with a white hat has been part of the Scottish Museum’s collection since 1960. In 1923 Evelyn St Croix Fleming bought the painting. Her son is best known as the creator of James Bond. In 1951 the piece went to Scotland and it was later donated to the NGS, where it remains today.
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Hidden in 1905
The layer of glue and cardboard was probably applied to the back of the painting in 1905. This probably happened in preparation for an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. The front was apparently seen as complete and the back was not.
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The Scottish research into the work was done in preparation for the exhibition A Taste for Impressionism† It will now not only show the work with the farmer’s wife, but also the X-ray, which gives an image of the self-portrait. The exhibition opens in two weeks.
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The museum plans to bring out the self-portrait after the exhibition. How long that will take is unknown. “Something like this has to be done very carefully, we don’t want to put pressure on that,” a curator told NRC.
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