Curators at an Israeli museum have discovered three previously unknown sketches by celebrated 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani hiding beneath the surface of one of his paintings.
Amadeo Modigliani's 1908"Nude with a Hat," is hung upside down because another painting by him,"Maud Abrantes," on the reverse side of the same canvas is oriented correctly, while on display at Haifa University's Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel, June 28, 2022. Curators at the museum using x-ray technology have discovered three previously unknown sketches by the celebrated 20th century artist hiding beneath the surface of the painting.
The last time Italy staged a big Modigliani show, a 2017 exhibit at Genoa’s Palazzo Ducale, museum officials closed the show early after experts alleged that many of the works on display were fakes. A criminal trial has been underway for over a year. In 2010, the museum’s curator noticed the eyes of a third figure peeking from beneath Abrantes' collar. But only this year was the hidden image brought into focus.
The canvas is now known to contain five of his paintings, likely painted one atop the other out of necessity to save money on new canvases. X-ray photography and other noninvasive technologies have found hidden works by other artists such as Degas and Rembrandt. Modigliani sought “an air of the strange and beauty” and achieved that through the incorporation of those foreign styles in his art, Wayne added. Wayne and his colleagues use scientific methods and art expertise to weed out fakes.
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