Free Updates
Let us tell you when new posts are added!
Email:
Click to subscribe via RSS
Navigation
Blog Home
Watercolor Artist
Watercolor Artist Store
The Artist's Magazine
The Artist's Magazine Blog
The Pastel Journal
The Pastel Journal Blog
Artists Network Forum
WetCanvas!
Search
Archives
<
August 2008
>
Sun
Mon
Tue
Wed
Thu
Fri
Sat
27
28
29
30
31
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
1
2
3
4
5
6
Categories
From the Magazine
Overheard
Reviews
Tips and Tools
Videos
August, 2008 (7)
July, 2008 (8)
June, 2008 (9)
May, 2008 (9)
April, 2008 (10)
March, 2008 (11)
February, 2008 (13)
January, 2008 (10)
December, 2007 (7)
November, 2007 (12)
October, 2007 (12)
September, 2007 (10)
August, 2007 (12)
Links
E-mail Watercolor Artist
Admin Sign-in
Monday, August 13, 2007
Lost van Gogh
Posted by sarah
Wild Vegetation
, owned by the Vincent van Gogh museum
(drawing of the painting discovered beneath
Ravine
by Vincent van Gogh)
In October of 1889, Vincent van Gogh's brother Theo was late in sending the artist his supplies, leaving him without any unused canvases. Van Gogh did what any impatient and impulsive artist would do: he painted over one of his already completed paintings. 118 years later, the lost painting beneath
Ravine
(now owned by the
Museum of Fine Art, Bosto
n
) has been discovered.
Using x-ray technology an
d a close examination of the painting's surface, scholars at MFA Boston and the
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
, were able to uncover
Wild Vegetation
, a painting van Gogh referenced more than once in drawings and in letters. According to the press release, the underlying composition was most likely painted in June 1889, during the early period of van Gogh’s stay at the asylum of Saint-Paul de Mausole near Saint-Rémy, and was re-used as a support for
Ravine
a few months later, in October 1889.
You can't see
Wild Vegetation
without an x-ray machine (and unusually extensive access to the museum's collection), of course. But you can see van Gogh’s pen-and-ink copy of
Wild Vegetation
(above) in
Van Gogh’s Drawings: New Insights
on view at the Van Gogh Museum through October 7, 2007. And
Ravine
(below)—the masterpiece that now covers the earlier painting—is on view in the MFA’s Impressionist Gallery. The images featured here are courtesy of MFA Boston's
website
, where you can get the whole story, if you're so inclined
Ravine
, owned by MFA Boston
X-ray of Ravine
showing underpainting
Overheard
8/13/2007 3:52:24 PM (Eastern Daylight Time, UTC-04:00)
Comments [0]
Name
E-mail
Home page
Remember Me
Comment (HTML not allowed)
Enter the code shown (prevents robots):