Under the picture, Picasso found a landscape by an unknown artist
ARTinvestment.RU   20 февраля 2018

Picasso turned onto the alien landscape in the back of his "Beggar squatting"

the Work of Pablo Picasso's 1902 "a Beggar, sitting on his haunches" ("La Misereuse Accroupie") refers to "blue period" in the artist. The picture belonging to the collection of the Art gallery of Ontario, investigated with the help of advanced method of roentgenofluorescence, which is based on the analysis of the chemical composition of paint pigments. New technology much cheaper than the former and allows for the analysis of colorful painting surface in a short time. On the study of Picasso took one day.

Under the work "the Beggar squatting" found a landscape by an unknown artist. And Picasso before writing his work turned someone else's work 90 degrees and used a line of mountains in the landscape as the basis for a silhouette of a beggar. The author of the landscape is not installed yet. Originally thought about the Uruguayan artist Joaquin Torres Garcia (1874-1949), who lived in Catalonia at the same time as Picasso. But then in the landscape of Barcelona learned of the Park del laberint d'horta, and experts have begun to lean towards the version about the authorship of the postimpressionist Rusinyol Santiago (1861-1931), who wrote repeatedly this Park, or someone-то of Catalan artists of the next generation. Detection of hidden landscape confirmed the Dating of Picasso's work the period when the artist was low on funds and was forced to use his and other people's canvases again.

Radiography and XRF analysis allowed not only to see the recorded landscape but also trace the various stages of the creation of Picasso. Some color pigments were found only in the lower, hidden layers of the painting. If the distribution of pigments based on chromium and iron is generally in line with the latest version of the composition, the analysis of the distribution of pigments with cadmium and lead showed that under the image of the cloak has a recorded image of the right hand — presumably with a piece of bread. What-то why Picasso decided to "hide" the arm under the cloak. There is a watercolor Picasso on a similar plot where squatting beggar holds in his hand a round piece of bread. These two works are clearly related. "Perhaps this is what-то religious, but he eventually decided to clean it up, because I did not want this context in this specific job", — commented on the opening of the expert mark Walton. The specialist added that the ultimate goal of their research is the analysis of colorful pigments of the original landscape that will allow you to submit it in color.

by many works of Picasso "blue period" was found hidden images. For example, under the work "Woman Ironing" from the collection of the Guggenheim Museum has found a portrait of a man, and another portrait of unknown man hidden under the work "the Blue room" from the collection of the Washington Museum "Collection Phillips".

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchina, AI

Sources: thetelegraphandargus.co.uk, theguardian.com, artinvestment.ru