The Real Dot, Forever With That Mirror
And Seurat's hidden self-portrait…
Look at the top left-hand corner of Georges Seurat’s Young Woman Powdering Herself. What do you see? A vase of flowers in a bamboo picture frame, right? Right.
Ah, but underneath…
In 2014, a scanner developed by the Italian Institute of Optics revealed that the vase was once something else entirely…
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