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先日、コスチュームジュエリー展を鑑賞すべく愛知県美術館を訪れたのですが、実はもう一つ訪れたい理由がございまして。昨年話題になったあのピカソの絵であります。

 

 

パブロピカソ「青い肩かけの女」

（1902）油彩、画布

 

 

愛知県美術館に所蔵されておりますこのパブロ・ピカソの油彩画において新発見が報告されたこと、ご存知だったでしょうか。「青の時代」の作品の１つ《青い肩かけの女》ですが、この絵の下になんと“別の人物像”が描かれていたことが明らかになりました。

 

そんなことも知らないでおりますと、深いなんともいえない青色の空間を背にうつろな表情の女性が正面を見つめている絵画なのですが、その発見に至った理由は彼の作品の一時代「青の時代」を紐解くところから始まっていたようです。

 

１８８１年にスペイン南部に生まれでフランスで活躍したピカソ。彼の経歴や作品などは説明するまでもないのですが、“造形の革命”とも言える美術表現「キュビスム」を創始し、９１歳で亡くなるまで作風を変えながら、絵画芸術に新たな地平をひらき続けた巨匠。

そんな彼が《青い肩かけの女》はピカソが「キュビスム」を提唱するよりも前、２０歳の若かりし頃に描いた作品であります。最初から彼の代表作《ゲルニカ》などのような作品を絵描いていたのかと思っておりましたが、かつてはこのような表情がよみとれる絵もかいていたのだなと驚きます。

 

紆余曲折の時代を経てあの《ゲルニカ》のような作風になっていくのですが、当時ピカソは親友・カサヘマスの自殺に強いショックを受け、“生と死”“貧困”といった主題に打ち込むようになった時代でもありました。その表現として青を用い、基調とした悲哀に満ちた作品群から「青の時代」と呼ばれているようになったようです。

 

そんな「青の時代」の作品ですが、実は近年の調査でその下層から別の絵が出てくるという事例が複数報告されております。愛知県美術館においても「この絵の下にもひょっとしたら…」なんて期待があったようでして、2014年からこの作品の本格調査に取りかかっておりました。

 

そもそもなぜそんな事例が多いのかと申しますと、「青青の時代」は貧困の時代でもあり、当時のピカソは若い画家で売れっ子でもなく、売れ残った作品がかなり手元に残っていたそうです。お金もなく、いくつかは“リユース”といいますか、古い絵を塗りつぶしてしまってその上に別の絵を描いていたようでして、貧しくても描きたいという強い思いがあってのことだと思いますが、それが今日になって発見され複数の報告となっているようであります。

 

 

 

 

 

それではごきげんよう。

 

 

Hello everyone, this is Staff Y.

 

The other day, I visited the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art to see the Costume Jewelry exhibition. It is the Picasso painting that was the talk of the town last year.

 

Pablo Picasso “Woman with Blue Shoulders” (1902) oil on canvas

 

Did you know that a new discovery has been reported in this oil painting by Pablo Picasso, which is in the collection of the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art? One of the works from the “Blue Period,” “Woman with Blue Shoulders,” has been found to have another figure painted underneath it.

 

The reason for this discovery seems to have started from the discovery of the “Blue Period,” a period of his works.

 

Picasso was born in 1881 in southern Spain and worked in France. His career and works need no explanation, but he is a master artist who created “Cubism,” an artistic expression that can be called a “revolution in plastic arts,” and continued to open up new horizons in the art of painting while changing his style until his death at the age of 91.

He painted “Woman with Blue Shoulders” at the young age of 20, before Picasso advocated “Cubism. I had thought that he had painted works like his masterpiece “Guernica” from the beginning, but I was surprised to see that he had once painted a picture in which we can read the expression on the artist’s face.

 

He was shocked by the suicide of his close friend, Cashemas, and began to focus on the themes of “life and death” and “poverty” at that time. He was shocked by the suicide of his close friend, Cashemas, and began to focus on such themes as “life and death” and “poverty. He used the color blue as an expression of this, and his works, which were full of sorrow and sadness, became known as the “Blue Period.

 

In fact, recent investigations have reported several cases in which other paintings have emerged from the lower layers of the “Blue Age” works. The Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art had been expecting that there might be another painting underneath this one, and in 2014, we began a full-scale investigation of this work.

The reason why there are so many such cases is that the “Blue and Blue Period” was a time of poverty, and Picasso was a young artist and not a successful one at the time, so he had a lot of unsold works left on his hands. He had no money, so he “reused” some of his old paintings by painting over them and creating new paintings on top of them. Today, it has been discovered and several reports have been made.

 

With such expectations, I have conducted various optical investigations of this painting for four years until 2018, including infrared, ultraviolet, X-ray transmission, and fluorescent X-ray, but no clear image appeared and no significant results were obtained. The results were so frustrating that we could not say “yes” or “no” to the question of whether there was something there…! It seemed that they could not make up their minds to “find it”.

 

In 2023, they embarked on their final research. The National Gallery of Art has recently been conducting a survey using a hyperspectral camera, which is capable of taking images by dividing light into smaller pieces according to wavelengths. The National Gallery of Art has recently conducted a survey using a hyperspectral camera, which is capable of taking images by dividing light into different wavelengths.

 

This research has produced remarkable results in the analysis of the “Blue Age” works. With the feeling of “If this doesn’t work, we’ll give up,” the “hyperspectral camera” photography will be conducted last May.

After a detailed data analysis, the image finally appeared.

 

When the image was examined closely, a figure with its head bent and slumped over emerged, completely different from the painting on the surface.

 

 

 

 

Since there are also lines that appear to depict arms and legs, there seems to be no doubt that this painting was also done by Picasso, but at this point, “we cannot be 100% sure,” according to the curator, and since no signature can be confirmed from the painting below, Soeda focused on the similarity with another Picasso painting from the same period. So, curator Soeda has focused on the similarity with other Picasso paintings of the same period.

As an example, he cited a work called “Soup,” which is representative of the “Blue Period. In “Soup,” the woman is curving her back and turning her head downwards, which is very similar to the lines of the figure found in the present painting. Since there are many other figures of similar composition in Picasso’s works of the same period, it does not seem unnatural, and I think it may be some kind of preparatory sketch that Picasso painted. He said.

 

Another interesting point of this discovery is that the “back” of the figure, which is bent significantly, seems to match the “head” line of the “Woman with Blue Shoulders,” which was eventually painted. It seems to coincide with the line of the “head” of the “Woman with Blue Shoulders,” which is ultimately painted in the present work, and I realized that Picasso used a part of the outline of the lower painting to paint the “Woman with Blue Shoulders” above it.

Perhaps Picasso “reused” some of the lines of the lower painting after he painted it, or perhaps he was inspired by the lines to create a new form.

 

We do not know exactly how Picasso painted at that time, but it was a very interesting discovery that gave us a glimpse of his creative process. I looked into the picture for a while with such a thought in my mind, but I couldn’t see the picture below. With a little imagination, I tried to superimpose the bottom picture on the top picture in my mind. Yes, I think I saw it.

 

Have a good day.

 

 

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