Scotland’s national gallery has discovered a beforehand unknown portrait of the post-Impressionist painter on the serve of an 1885 canvas.
Printed On 14 Jul 2022
A painting likely to be a beforehand unknown self-portrait of Vincent van Gogh has been discovered by the Nationwide Galleries of Scotland, in response to Edinburgh’s institution.
The portrait change into discovered on the serve of the canvas of the Dutch post-Impressionist’s 1885 work “Head of a Peasant Woman”, covered by layers of glue and cardboard.
It reveals a bearded sitter in a brimmed hat with a neckerchief tied loosely on the neck. His left ear, which the painter famously prick off in 1888 after tempers flared with Paul Gauguin, is clearly seen.
Professor Frances Fowle, senior curator of French artwork on the Nationwide Galleries of Scotland, said on Thursday “moments adore this are incredibly rare”.
“Now we maintain discovered an unknown work by Vincent van Gogh, no doubt one of crucial and standard artists within the enviornment. What an out of this world gift for Scotland, and one which will eternally be within the care of the Nationwide Galleries,” he said.
Guests will be in a aim to admire it at a impending exhibition between July 30 and November 13 as an X-ray image thru a specially designed light field.
Longer time duration, curators are engaged on safely extracting it from the covering canvas with out unfavorable the artwork.
Shedding light on van Gogh’s lifestyles
Lesley Stevenson, a senior artwork conservator on the Nationwide Galleries, said they had been “overjoyed to bits” on the glean.
“Here’s a foremost discovery since it provides to what we already study about van Gogh’s lifestyles,” he said. “There may perchance be plenty to take into fable close to the next steps, nonetheless for us, it’s one more itsy-bitsy nugget to glean us somewhat bit nearer to an out of this world artist.”
Van Gogh change into acknowledged for reusing canvas to establish cash by turning it round and engaged on the opposite side.
Curators imagine the painting is no doubt one of a series of experimental self-portraits. 5 the same works are displayed on the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, painted earlier than he moved to Paris in 1886.
Doubtlessly round 1905, when the Peasant Woman change into lent to an exhibition on the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, the resolution change into made to stay the canvas down on cardboard earlier than framing.
At this date, the Peasant Woman change into evidently regarded as more total than the Van Gogh self-portrait, the Nationwide Galleries of Scotland said in a press launch.
The painting modified hands several times and in 1923 change into received by Evelyn St Croix Fleming, whose son, Ian, grew to change into the creator of James Bond.
In 1951, it got right here to Scotland, having entered the sequence of Alexander and Rosalind Maitland.
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