07/30/2008

A Vincent van Gogh portrait of a woman which was painted over and hidden by the artist has been revealed in extraordinary detail by experts using a new X-ray technique.

The peasant woman's face emerged from the centre of the work Patch Of Grass, completed by van Gogh in Paris in 1887 and now owned by the Kroller-Muller Museum in the Netherlands.

It is well known that van Gogh often painted over his older works, and experts estimate that about one third of the Dutch artist's early pictures conceal other compositions.