X-rays of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1908 painting “Nude with a Hat” yielded a surprise for curators at the Hecht Museum in Haifa: three unfinished sketches by the celebrated Jewish Italian artist were hiding beneath the surface. “Nude with a Hat” was already a known oddity because on the reverse side of the canvas, upside-down, there’s a slightly earlier…
X-rays of "Nude with a Hat" reveal unfinished portraits by the famed Jewish Italian artist. He likely reused canvases because he couldn’t afford new ones.