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Can you imagine finding objects concealed beneath the layers of paint? That’s what happened to us in Balthus’s picture, a canvas full of mysteries. Here we show you the hat hidden beneath the paint film, which the artist initially depicted lying on the rounded sofa and decided not to include in the final composition.
X-radiography enabled us to learn about the changes the painter made during the execution process.
Brown and Silver I by Jackson Pollock is mounted on a type of stretcher not commonly found in the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection: an expansion-bolt stretcher, a system that differs from those generally found in artworks.
Our suspicion that the male figure concealed significant information and some kind of secret was confirmed when the painting was studied using a combination of scientific techniques.
Carpaccio’s young knight has always proved enigmatic to scholars. One of the most curious findings of our study was the discovery of a concealed inscription on the back of the painting: ‘A. Durer’.