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	BlackChampagne -- no longer new; improvement also in question.: Lost Van Gogh Found Sunday, August 05, 2007 Lost Van Gogh Found As the banner atop every page on this website should attest, I am a fan of Vincent van Gogh's art. So it was with some interest that I read this news item, about a lost van Gogh being found... underneath a not-lost van Gogh. Art expert and historians in Boston and Amsterdam announced Friday that they have discovered a valuable lost work by the painter Vincent Van Gogh hidden under an existing canvas at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, discovered the Van Gogh painting underneath the artist's painting entitled "Ravine," which is owned by the MFA. MFA conservator Meta Chavannes was conducting a technical examination of "Ravine" and discovered the existence of the second painting below the paint surface of the work. So they had an existing, well-known van Gogh, and while poking at it they discovered that he painted it over another of his own works. Which is interesting... but now what? If the painting on top was some kind of Dogs Playing Poker they could chip it off and have a new irreplaceable and nearly priceless van Gogh. But they've got a classic Van Gogh over a long lost less-classic Van Gogh. I don't think there's any way for them to remove the top version and preserve it, thus doubling their van Goghage, so what's the point in this? Just art historian satisfaction, I guess. The lost work was known from mentions Vincent made in letters to his brother/benefactor Theo, so that's one mystery solved. Vincent painted a tremendous amount of canvases in a short time, and they were not valued during his life time, so lots were lost, reused, destroyed, etc. The fact that Vincent produced a lot of them while trekking across provincial Europe, and often gave away paintings, or traded them for food, means there are almost certainly a few still tucked away in dusty attics in French and Belgian farmhouses. Finding one or more of those is the Holy Grail of art collectors, and one turns up every few years, though there are always issues of authenticity. In fact, plenty of art scholars think quite a few of the known, identified, museum-displayed, hundred million dollar van Goghs are forgeries, though this is a highly contentious issue, given the prestige and tens of millions of dollars involved. Labels: art, van gogh Posted by: Flux # 2:21 PM Comments: They can do all sorts of crazy stuff with x-ray imaging and other types of see-thru-'em technology that they can probably find out what the underlying picture looks like, if not the actual colours used, which they could probably estimate and guess. So they might be able to reproduce an image of it anyway. They did similar stuff to discover an Archimedes text that was on a palimpset from some old monastery. Around 1906 some guy discovered it and over the following decades through close study they managed to get most of it out, and then in the 1990's they did all sorts of fancy scans to discover the full text, as well as apparently additional images and text that they hadn't suspected were there. Interestingly it was of a text that scholars knew existed but was thought lost, and out of all of his surviving texts it explains his mathematical side (prior to that he was largely acclaimed as an engineer) and described the techniques he used for figuring things out. #: 3:24 AM posted by Anonymous Post a Comment << Home Archives May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 August 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 June 2006 July 2006 August 2006 September 2006 October 2006 November 2006 December 2006 January 2007 February 2007 March 2007 April 2007 May 2007 June 2007 July 2007 August 2007 September 2007 October 2007 November 2007 December 2007 January 2008 February 2008 March 2008 April 2008 May 2008 June 2008 July 2008 August 2008 September 2008 October 2008 November 2008 December 2008 January 2009 February 2009 March 2009 April 2009 May 2009 June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 September 2009 October 2009 November 2012

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