Hidden Picasso painting

They discover a Picasso painting hidden under another

Hidden Picasso painting

A study of the materials used by Picasso in six portraits of his early works has emerged hidden and others that can not be seen because they are covered with white lead, also have been found to intuit that the influence of his father, also a painter It was greater than previously thought.

These findings were announced today in presenting the results of the study by the University of Barcelona and the Picasso Museum, a mobile laboratory, called MOLAB, for in situ analysis of artworks within the framework of the European project Research Infrastructures advanced culture on equity (CHARISMA).

The head of the Department of Preventive Conservation of Museum Reyes Jimenez, Head of the Department of Preventive Conservation Museum, explained that the studio wanted to deepen the work Self Portrait with wig from two works made in Coruña, where 14 years He learned to paint from the hand of his father, J. Ruiz Blasco, a teacher at the School of Fine Arts in that city, and others, all painted between 1895 and 1900. The pictures are analyzed “Old” Man with Beret, Portrait of Josep Cardona i Furro, Man-style El Greco, portrait Portrait with Carles Casagemas and wig. Old, painted in Coruña, is a simple and seemingly simple work, has some spots that could indicate some other composition, while Man with Beret, 1895, is more complicated and robust and it is seen that Picasso has a connection huge with the work of his father.

Under the cap they have appeared two doves, a constant in his parent and teacher who may be the first to be aware of this issue, and according to Jimenez, one could say that a penchant for painting doves of Picasso was an inheritance from his father. Picasso’s father was a copyist painter was simple binary compositions, which always painted doves, and after this finding, announced this expert, a line is open to study his works, although “I had a short collection that is held by collections private “.

Hidden Picasso painting

Man painting in the style of El Greco has a male figure below that connects back to the period of formation of Picasso in Barcelona, ​​when he painted nudes in schools and study. In addition, experts have noted that Picasso pieces of fabric cut and reused, so has now explained Jimenez will try to find more pieces of work and where they have been set out.

Table of Josep Cardona i Furro, 1899, Picasso worked three times, as they have appeared other paintings with scenes of patients, as in the play “Next to the disease,” and the image of a roof, a cityscape Picasso worked hard in Barcelona. This landscape has even made a chromatic recreation and has seen that is linked to its cheerful and colorful paint, similar to the work Terrazas and church of Santa Marta, and the work visible, very vertical strokes and a lot of paint, nothing to see what’s underneath.

Portrait of Carles Casagemas of 1899-1900, which had already been restored 50 years ago, is a painting with many conservation problems because of a layer of white lead which caused cracks and fall of what is painted over, what it is now known that hides something that can not be seen, “because lead is an interface”. What if it has been determined that under the paint that has fallen, and is above the target, there is a pictorial composition of blue, green and beige, which could correspond to a landscape, for the like chromaticism with two other landscapes Horta de Sant Joan (Tarragona) painted in 1898.

Under Self wig, experts have found a clear greenish ocher layer of a man with hat large Bohemian style, similar to the portrait of Pompeu Gener.

The researcher at the Department of Analytical Chemistry at the UB Joseph F. Garcia has stated that knowing the structure of materials and composition of Picasso’s palette is important “because it gives information about the artist, the time and the cultural and geographical context of his work”. He explained that although the fieldwork lasted five days, in which evidence of fluorescence X-rays, infrared spectroscopy, and Raman spectroscopy, among others, then he has worked for over a year and a half were to make a full report on the pigments and composition.

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The Picasso Museum in Barcelona shows the fascination of the Malaga painter by El Greco

The center will expose until next January 17th the ‘old gentleman’ box, a masterpiece that belongs to the collection of the Museo del Prado

Caballero-anciano-by-El-Greco

The Picasso Museum in Barcelona shows today in the exhibition of Picasso’s passion “grequiana” fascination and influence that Domenicos Theotocopoulos in the Malaga painter in different stages of their lives.

The result of an exchange of work, the Picasso Museum exhibit until next January 17th Caballero Anciano, a masterpiece of El Greco portrait, which belongs to the collection of the Prado Museum.

This work is exhibited along with 29 pieces that are part of the permanent collection of the Barcelona museum, all selected by the exhibition curator and curator of the center, Malén Gual.

As explained Malén Gual, “This admiration was evident especially in the period of contact between Picasso and Barcelona Modernism, in the Blue Period, at the beginning of Cubism and in the sixties, when he glanced toward the century Spanish gold.

The painting “caballero anciano” is an oil painting of 1587-1600 and one of the most literary and artistic interest has raised since the beginning of his exhibition at the Museo del Prado.

The painting by El Greco responds to a rare type, the short bust and austere at the same time, where the faces portrayed in a very direct way to the scrutiny of the viewer, and where are minimized rhetorical elements that accompany and contextualize the portrait in the Modern Age: clothing, stage and gestures.

Picasso’s admiration for El Greco began in his youth, he tells the commissioner, when he had the opportunity to study the work of El Greco following his visits to the Prado Museum in Madrid, during the period 1897-1898, while studying in the Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando.

The young Picasso soon decided to train on their own, learning precisely observing the masterpieces preserved in the Prado, “although in the records of the Madrid gallery has no record of that copied a painting by El Greco, and yes, instead, works of Velázquez and Murillo, “says Gual.

From this period also comes the fascination with the work of Velázquez, observed on a sheet of drawings in Horta de Sant Joan in 1898 in which he writes a declaration of intentions. “Greco Velázquez inspire me”, exposed by the portrait “Man the style of El Greco “(1899).

In the exhibition you can see a series of drawings of characters with stylized heads, “the grequiano way,” often mixed with other drawings and caricatures of Picasso belonging to this period.

Returning to Barcelona, ​​in the circle of modernist café Els Quatre Gats, he became acquainted with Santiago Rusiñol, Miquel Utrillo and Ignacio Zuloaga, fans, collectors and supporters of El Greco at a time when he had not yet received widespread recognition and even his work was still attached to the Italian school.

In the late nineteenth century, Picasso made several drawings and paintings where the inspiration for El Greco is central: pronounced elongation of the figures and of the characters in costumes of the sixteenth century. ”

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