Experts from the Washington Museum Collection Phillips found that early painting by Pablo Picasso's "Blue room" hides the portrait of an unknown

Experts from the Washington Museum Collection Phillips (The Phillips Collection) the discovery was made during research in the infrared picture of Pablo Picasso's "Blue room". It turned out that the work of 1901, relating to the famous "blue period", hides another image — a portrait of a certain bearded man in a bowtie, podparser head in his hand with three rings. According to the technical study, portrait of a man, apparently, was created shortly before the "Blue room", which means that both works were written in Parigi@

the Study of works from the Museum the Phillips Collection, National gallery of art, Cornell University and the Winterthur Museum (Delaware) was engaged in since 2008. In the collection of the Phillips Collection this work is from 1927, and since 1954, the conservatives began to suspect that under the picture may hide another image mentioned are not relevant compositions Maski@

Curator Susan Berends Frank (Susan Behrends Frank told the AP that Picasso often painted over his works in a burst of inspiration: "if it was visited by some idea, he needed to bring it to life". He could not afford to buy a new canvas every time he matured the plan of the next picture. Had to keep track of already finished work or write for cheaper cartone@

so Far, the identity of the man depicted in the hidden portrait is a mystery. Examinations will continue for 2017 planned exhibition dedicated to the "Blue room" and the portrait neizvestnogo@

Under the work of the "blue period" Picasso is not the first time discover the hidden image. So, under painting "Woman Ironing" 1904 from the collection of the new York Guggenheim Museum, was discovered a portrait of a mustached man — presumably, tailor and other artist Beneta Solera@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI 

Источники: bbc.com, artinvestment.ru