Discovery and material study of the missing feet part from Magritte’s L’évidence éternelle of 1954

Abstract 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...

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Main Authors: Catherine Defeyt, Francisca Vandepitte, Elodie Herens, David Strivay
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2019-11-01
Series:Heritage Science
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40494-019-0338-y