{"id":8812,"date":"2017-11-27T19:32:30","date_gmt":"2017-11-28T02:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=8812"},"modified":"2017-12-02T19:35:25","modified_gmt":"2017-12-03T02:35:25","slug":"8812-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2017\/11\/27\/8812-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Missing Magritte"},"content":{"rendered":"

from artnet news<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Researchers Uncover the Final Piece of a Missing Magritte, Solving an 85-Year-Old Mystery<\/h1>\n

The artist once cut apart a critically acclaimed work and painted over the pieces. Now, the final piece has been recovered.<\/p>\n

by Brian Boucher<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Ren\u00e9Ren\u00e9 Magritte, The Enchanted Pose with restored colors. \u00a9 Succession Ren\u00e9 Magritte c\/o SABAM \u00a9 ULi\u00e8ge.<\/em><\/p>\n

Researchers in Belgium have come upon a Ren\u00e9 Magritte<\/a> painting that harbors a long-sought secret.<\/p>\n

In the early 1930s, the Belgian artist was poor enough that he reused canvases, painting over one work with another. In one case, he cut one of his paintings\u2014The Enchanted Pose<\/em> (1927)\u2014into four pieces and painted over each one to create discrete new works. Now, researchers have discovered the fourth and final piece of the original work, solving an 85-year-old mystery.<\/p>\n

The work\u00a0was unearthed at none other than the Magritte Museum, in Brussels, Belgium, where researchers were inspecting all the paintings in the collection as part of a larger research project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI screamed something like \u2018Oh my gosh!\u2019 but less polite,\u201d said Catherine Defeyt, a researcher at the University of Li\u00e8ge\u2019s European Center for Archaeometry, of the moment of the discovery.<\/p>\n

Pieces of the puzzle have been coming to light for four years; the three other pieces were found in three other major museums.<\/p>\n

The first piece, The Portrait<\/em> (1935),\u00a0was uncovered<\/a> by curator Anne Umland and conservator Michael Duffy at New York\u2019s Museum of Modern Art in 2013. It shows two identical female nudes side by side, each with an arm resting on a broken column.<\/p>\n

The whereabouts of the original painting\u00a0were listed in the Magritte catalogue raisonn\u00e9 as unknown; the only existing photo of it was in black and white. Umland and Duffy were inspecting The Portrait\u00a0<\/em>by way of conservation research in preparation for an exhibition there.<\/p>\n

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from artnet news Researchers Uncover the Final Piece of a Missing Magritte, Solving an 85-Year-Old Mystery The artist once cut apart a critically acclaimed work and painted over the pieces. Now, the final piece has been recovered. by Brian Boucher Ren\u00e9 Magritte, The Enchanted Pose with restored colors. \u00a9 Succession Ren\u00e9 Magritte c\/o SABAM \u00a9 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}