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Asharq Al-Awsat
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Israeli Museum Finds Sketches Hidden in Modigliani Painting

Inna Berkowits, an art historian at the Haifa University's Hecht Museum explains about Amadeo Modigliani's painting "Maud Abrantes" that is painted on the reverse side of a canvas with another painting by him titled, "Nude with a Hat,” and is on display at Haifa University's Hecht Museum in Haifa, Israel, June 28, 2022. (AP)

Curators at an Israeli museum have discovered three previously unknown sketches by celebrated 20th-century artist Amedeo Modigliani hiding beneath the surface of one of his paintings.

The unfinished works by Modigliani, an Italian-born artist who worked in Paris before his death in 1920, came to light after the canvas of "Nude with a Hat" at Haifa University’s Hecht Museum was X-rayed as part of a sweeping forensic study of his work for an upcoming exhibit in Philadelphia.

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