X-rays reveal hidden sketches under Modigliani painting - Video

(9 Jul 2022) ISRAEL MODIGLIANI

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Haifa, Israel – 28 June 2022
1. Tracking shot of Modigliani's portrait of Maude Abrantes on one side and "Nude with a hat" on other side
2. Tilt up of Modigliani's painting "Nude with a hat"
3. Mid of painting "Nude with a hat" on display at Haifa University's Hecht Museum
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Inna Berkowits, art historian, Haifa University's Hecht Museum:
"When we decided to do the X-ray, what we wanted is to learn a little bit more about the hidden figure underneath (painting of) Maude Abrantes, and when I received the X-ray, what I saw is three new figures that we didn't know existed at all underneath the two paintings. And what we have here on this side is actually two additional portraits that couldn't be seen at all before with a naked eye. We have a portrait of a man that's located underneath the head of 'Nude with a hat', a very highly finished portrait of a man locking straight at the viewer, and we also have another figure of a woman that's upside down, so in the same direction as Maude Abrantes, and she has her hair done up in a bun."
5. Close of painting "Nude with a hat"
6. X-ray images of painting "Nude with a hat" revealing portrait of man looking directly at viewer
7. Painting "Nude with a hat" and x-ray images
8. "Modigliani's Secrets" exhibit poster
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Inna Berkowits, art historian, Haifa University's Hecht Museum:
"What we see here is a highly-finished portrait of a man looking directly at the viewer, and we didn't know this portrait existed until we did the x-ray, so this is a completely new discovery of another painting by Modigliani underneath the painting that we have."
10. Modigliani portrait of Maude Abrantes
11. Close of portrait of Maude Abrantes
12. Close of portrait of Maude Abrantes with figure underneath with pair of blue eyes and eyebrows
13. Various of x-ray images of portrait
14. "Below the surface" exhibit poster
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Inna Berkowits, art historian, Haifa University's Hecht Museum:
"This painting was hanging at the museum for many years, and one day, the previous director of the (Hecht) museum Ofra Rimon, made a discovery – she noticed that underneath the shoulder and neck of Maude there's another painting. So, you can see here a pair of blue eyes and eyebrows and the shape of the face and a sketch of a hat. So, what we know is that there were two paintings. Modigliani started to paint this figure underneath, and then he turned the canvas around, and painted Maude Abrantes, his friend. "
16. Portrait of Maude Abrantes on display
17. Berkowits walking to "Nude with a hat"
18. "Nude with a hat"
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Inna Berkowits, art historian, Haifa University's Hecht Museum:
"Modigliani is this very kind of wild, bohemian figure in the art world. At the beginning of the 20th century in Paris, it's the place to be and all the artists come to Paris, and they lead this very turbulent lifestyle, and Modigliani leads the most turbulent lifestyle - he's very passionate with his women and he's very passionate with his painting. And he basically, what we now know, in the very beginning of his career, uses the canvas as kind of a sketchbook, and he paints over and over again, in this never-ending search for artistic expression."
20. Various of Berkowits showing painting's x-ray on her smartphone
LEADIN:
Curators at an Israeli museum have discovered three previously unknown sketches by celebrated Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani hiding beneath the surface of one of his paintings.
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