How conservator discovered part of lost Magritte painting in Norwichpublished at 13:37 British Summer Time 8 September 2016
Zoe Applegate
BBC News
Rene Magritte's painting La Pose Enchantee went on display in 1927 but vanished in the 1930s and the Belgian surrealist never spoke of its fate.
Its existence was only known about through a small black and white photograph in a Magritte catalogue.
It turned out that he had split the painting into four canvases, which he then painted over.
The missing piece found in Norwich was uncovered by a curious art conservator.
Alice Tavares da Silva (pictured) was preparing Norwich Castle Museum’s La Condition Humaine, another Magritte work, for an exhibition in Paris, external when she discovered paint from what appeared to be a different painting around the edges and back of the canvas.