By: Carys Wee

Vincent Van Gogh is a very well-known artist who drew and painted amazing pieces. Yet another of his paintings has been found.

When Van Gogh was poor, he would use canvases on both the front and back. When Van Gogh painted over his artwork, he covered it with glue and cardboard. But after a few years passed most of the paintings were lost because they got covered up.

Recently, at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, researchers took an x-ray of the painting the Head of a Peasant Woman to prepare for an upcoming exhibit on impressionism. The x-ray showed that the painting was covered in cardboard and glue.

“When we saw the X-ray for the first time, of course we were hugely excited. Such a major discovery happens once, twice in a conservator’s lifetime,” said the senior paintings conservator, Lesley Stevenson.

When the painting was revealed, people couldn’t tell what the painting depicted. All they see is a white speckled figure. But many believed it to be a self-portrait of Van Gogh.

A senior curator of French art, Frances Fowle, said that “We have discovered an unknown work by Vincent Van Gogh, one of the most important and popular artists in the world.”

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Van Gogh hidden self-portrait has been discovered in Scotland using X-ray _ NPR.pdf