![]() ![]() “Such a major discovery happens once, twice in a conservator’s lifetime.” “When we saw the X-ray for the first time, of course we were hugely excited,” said senior paintings conservator Lesley Stevenson in a video release. “We have discovered an unknown work by Vincent van Gogh, one of the most important and popular artists in the world.” “Moments like this are incredibly rare,” Fowle said in a statement. Professor Frances Fowle, senior curator of French Art at the National Galleries, described it as a “wonderful gift for Scotland.” Several similarly hidden portraits have surfaced since Dutch conservator Jan Cornelius Traas uncovered three in 1929, but this is a first for a United Kingdom institution. Van Gogh routinely painted on the reverse sides of canvases to save money, completing more than three dozen self-portraits in a 10-year period. Left: Vincent Van Gogh, “Head of a Peasant Woman” (1885) right: X-ray image of hidden Vincent Van Gogh self-portrait National Galleries staff believe that the artist’s sister-in-law, Johanna Van Gogh-Bonger, framed “Peasant Woman” around 1905 before sending it to the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, as it was supposedly considered more complete than the verso self-portrait. Painted on the reverse side of the artist’s “Head of Peasant Woman” (1885) portrait, the apparitional work came to light during an X-ray in preparation for an upcoming Impressionism exhibition in Edinburgh.Ĭovered by a cardboard backing and glue, the piece unmistakably depicts the bearded Dutch master in a hat and neckerchief with his left ear clearly visible, predating its violent removal in 1888. On Thursday, July 14, conservators at the National Galleries of Scotland discovered a previously unknown self-portrait of Vincent Van Gogh. (photo by Neil Hanna, all courtesy National Galleries of Scotland) Provenance Left by the artist at the apartment of his brother Theo van Gogh, Paris, somewhere between December 1887 and February 1888 after his death on 25 January 1891, inherited by his widow, Jo van Gogh-Bonger, and their son, Vincent Willem van Gogh, Paris administered until her death on 2 September 1925 by Jo van Gogh-Bonger, Bussum/Amsterdam/Laren 1909 given on loan by Jo van Gogh-Bonger to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh, Laren to the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, from 1927 to 1930 given on loan by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, since 22 October 1931 donated by Vincent Willem van Gogh to the (1st) Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Laren, 11 March 1952 transferred by the (1st) Vincent van Gogh Foundation to the Theo van Gogh Foundation, Laren, 28 December 1960 agreement concluded on 21 July 1962 between the (2nd) Vincent van Gogh Foundation, Amsterdam, and the State of the Netherlands, in which the preservation and management of the collection, and its placing in the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh, to be realized in Amsterdam, is entrusted to the State donated on 21 July 1962 by the Theo van Gogh Foundation to the Vincent van Gogh Foundation given on loan until the opening of the museum on 2 June 1973 to the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam on permanent loan to the Rijksmuseum Vincent van Gogh from 2 June 1973 and at the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, since 1 July 1994.Senior Conservator Lesley Stevenson views “Head of a Peasant Woman” (1885) alongside an X-ray image of the hidden Van Gogh self-portrait.
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