Discovery of new drawing by Picasso
ARTinvestment.RU   23 июля 2020

The figure was discovered by specialists of the Chicago Institute for the study of still life, 1922

According to the report, published this week in the journal Applied Science, the discovery was made during research by experts the art Institute of Chicago. "Still life" by Pablo Picasso, 1922, is considered one of the jewels of the Museum collection ever since, as it was presented to the art Institute of Chicago by the writer Alice Toklas in the name of her famous colleagues in the literary workshop of Gertrude Stein in 1953. The work belongs to the late cubist period of Picasso when the artist experimented with the image of a flat grids placed on top of the local color fields, combining them with lines of different thickness.

In the study, the experts used x-rays, studied the work in infrared light and in the end found under the paint layer was a completely different picture. Interestingly, the composition of the detected pattern was built vertically, not horizontally, as in the main job. This Ghost, visible only with the help of special tools the image is a completely independent substantive staging, which he called "still life with vase and glass". Experts note that the found pattern is reminiscent of Picasso's "still life" (1922) from the collection of the Gothenburg art Museum in Sweden. And although artists often use the canvases again, but, unlike others, Picasso blocked the original image is a square, solid white color, creating a clean surface for a new job.

Kim Muir, one of the conservators who participated in the study, said that after careful analysis, the experts were able to understand the conditions in which the picture was stored previously, that "identified the strategy of restoration actions," allowing scientists to "restore the original state [colorful] the surface previously hidden by layers of dirt, varnish and late entries".

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