People usually discuss paintings in terms of pigment, composition, technique or the lives of the artists who created them. Yet every work of art also possesses another set of layers, less visible but often more compelling than the painted surface.
Like successive glazes applied by a master painter, these hidden layers reveal stories of ownership, politics, deception and loss. In many cases, the most revealing story is not what appears on the canvas, but what history has painted over—or concealed behind—it. The visible image is only the beginning; the unseen history frequently proves the more enduring masterpiece.
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