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# X-rays reveal a portrait of Miró's mother by Cristòfol Monserrat beneath his abstract painting
- URL: https://theparnassian.com/en/rentgenovskii-snimok-kartiny-zhoana-miro-pintura-zhivopis-1925-1927-pokazal-chto-ona-napisana-poverkh-portreta-materi-khudozhnika-pishet-artgid/
- Published: 2025-03-28T12:15:17.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-02T18:45:39.000Z
- Author: Alexandr Radayev
- Tags: Art, Heritage, Science

An X-ray of Joan Miró's painting Pintura ("Painting", 1925–1927) has shown that it was painted over a portrait of the artist's mother, writes Artguide.

In recent examinations using X-rays, specialists discovered beneath the paint layer of the work a portrait of a middle-aged woman, executed in a style different from Miró's own. It turned out to be a portrait of Miró's mother by the Catalan artist Cristòfol Monserrat i Jorba. The experts consider that the artist's decision to paint his abstract picture over a formal portrait of his mother was an act of rebellion against the middle-class world that his parents represented. Miró held left-wing views

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