Unveiling
Pablo Picasso
"Woman Ironing" (La repasseuse 1904)
Even though it is a known fact that artists have recycled canvases, we may wonder who used them first. Sometimes they might have borrowed them or just randomly found them, painting over someone else’s work.
This is the case of Pablo Picasso’s Woman Ironing (La repasseuse, 1904).
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Pieter Molijn
"Landscape with Open Gate"
This small work, so evocative of the windswept terrain near the dunes along the Dutch coast, captures the essence of early seventeenth-century landscape painting.
Hidden beneath layers of paint lives this artistic master's black chalk sketch that began his artistic journey.
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Pablo Picasso
"The Blue Room"
Infrared reflectography uncovered a portrait behind this painting. The image is of a man dressed up in Parisian dinner attire, resting his head on his right hand.
Scientists presume that the hidden painting is also by Picasso, and it was completed and dried before being painted over. Biographical information confirms Picasso’s financial difficulties at time the blue portraits did not sell well encouraged the artist to paint over his previous works until arriving at a salable composition.
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