- November 6, 2023
Three hidden sketches discovered beneath Modigliani's "Nude with a Hat" at the Hecht Museum
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Amedeo Modigliani’s “Nude with a Hat”, 1908 (left) is hung upside down to show another painting by him, ‘Maud Abrantes,’ on the reverse side of the same canvas, Hecht Museum, University of Haifa
Description
Curators at the University of Haifa have made a remarkable discovery by finding three previously undiscovered sketches by the renowned 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani concealed beneath the surface of one of his paintings. These unfinished works, hidden for years, were unveiled during an X-ray examination of Modigliani’s “Nude with a Hat” at the University’s Hecht Museum as part of a comprehensive forensic study for an upcoming exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Inna Berkowits, an art historian at the Hecht Museum, said it was “quite an amazing discovery.”
The discovery was also widely reported by both Israeli and world media :