The story of a lost masterpiece found under a portrait is told at Leeds Art Gallery.
Wyndham Lewis who painted Praxitella was the founder of the radical and short-lived Vorticist movementThe story of how a lost masterpiece was hidden for more than 100-years under another famous 20th Century painting is being told in Leeds.It was discovered in 2019 under a portrait called Praxitella, by Percy Wyndham Lewis, the founder of the short-lived Vorticists movement.
Praxitella has been part of the collection at Leeds Art Gallery since 1945, and was created by Wyndham Lewis in around 1921. A spokesperson for the gallery said subtle clues, including raised paint lines and tiny surface cracks, led experts to believe there might be a second painting underneath it.That was until Rebecca Chipkin and Helen Kohn were researching Praxitella, which was on loan from Leeds Art Gallery, and found Atlantic City, by Helen Saunders, the artwork which had been a secret for so long.
Jane Bhoyroo, principal keeper at Leeds Art Gallery, said: "Praxitella has long been one of the most renowned works in the gallery's collection and is rightly recognised as a hugely important piece in its own right. "The discovery of a completely different work beneath it adds a whole new dimension and significance to Praxitella, giving its story even more depth and complexity."Follow BBC Yorkshire on
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