Curators at an Israeli museum have discovered three previously unknown sketches by celebrated 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani hiding beneath the surface of one of his paintings.
The high demand for authentic Modigliani works has generated a thriving market for fakes and forgeries.The last time Italy staged a big Modigliani show, a 2017 exhibit at Genoa's Palazzo Ducale, museum officials closed the show early after experts alleged that many of the works on display were fakes. A criminal trial has been underway for over a year.In 2018, X-ray technology revealed a previously unknown Modigliani portrait beneath one of his paintings at London's Tate Gallery.
Inna Berkowits, an art historian at the Haifa University's Hecht Museum, talks about Amadeo Modigliani's painting"Maud Abrantes," which is painted on the reverse side of a canvas with another painting by him titled,"Nude with a Hat," in Haifa, Israel, June 28, 2022. In 2010, the museum's curator noticed the eyes of a third figure peeking from beneath Abrantes' collar. But only this year was the hidden image brought into focus.
Amadeo Modigliani's 1908"Nude with a Hat," is hung upside down because another painting by him,"Maud Abrantes," on the reverse side of the same canvas is oriented correctly while on display at Haifa University's Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel, June 28, 2022.Berkowits called the artwork"a sketchbook on a canvas," showing Modigliani's repeated tries and"never-ending search for artistic expression.
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