Another of Vincent Van Gogh's hidden self-portraits has been discovered, this time at the National Galleries of Scotland.
An X-ray image shows this previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh painted on the reverse side of his paintingWhen Vincent Van Gogh was low on money he took to painting on both sides of the canvas, but over the years some of his reverse side paintings were covered up and lost. Now, another of his hidden self-portraits has been discovered, this time at the National Galleries of Scotland.
as the museum was prepping for an upcoming exhibition on impressionism, which is scheduled to open at the end of the month.Head of a Peasant WomanVan Gogh'sis one of three pieces of the artist's work in the National Galleries Collection. With the discovery of the hidden self-portrait, they now have four works in total.
"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."
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