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Discovery and material study of the missing feet part from Magritte’s L’évidence éternelle of 1954
Defeyt, Catherine; Vandepitte, Francisca; Herens, Elodie et al.
2019In Heritage Science
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Keywords :
Magritte; XRF; imaging
Abstract :
[en] One of the two missing canvases from L’évidence éternelle of 1954, the one of the feet, has been discovered beneath a small woman portrait painted in 1958, La toile de Pénélope. Indeed, the underlying woman’s feet revealed through the IRR and XRR images leave little doubt about the identity of the hidden composition. All the more so as the canvas dimensions perfectly match with the format ascribed to the feet part in the diagram Magritte made of the 1954 variant of L’évidence éternelle. This paper presents the main results of the material study conducted on La toile de Pénélope by means of non-invasive and complementary imaging and analytical techniques. Furthermore, it proposes a virtual colorized reconstruction of the hidden picture, built on the basis of the XRR and IRR images, the elemental information provided by the MA-XRF analysis, the Raman results and the microscope examination of the painting surface.
Research center :
AAP - Art, Archéologie et Patrimoine - ULiège
CEA - Centre Européen en Archéométrie - ULiège
Disciplines :
Physics
Arts & humanities: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Art & art history
Author, co-author :
Defeyt, Catherine ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Spectroscopie atomique et nucléaire, archéométrie
Vandepitte, Francisca
Herens, Elodie ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Spectroscopie atomique et nucléaire, archéométrie
Strivay, David  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de physique > Spectroscopie atomique et nucléaire, archéométrie
Language :
English
Title :
Discovery and material study of the missing feet part from Magritte’s L’évidence éternelle of 1954
Publication date :
21 November 2019
Journal title :
Heritage Science
eISSN :
2050-7445
Publisher :
Springer, New York, United States - New York
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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Name of the research project :
Magritte on Practice
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