Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1882484 | Radiation Physics and Chemistry | 2014 | 5 Pages |
•Identification of the forgery of an easel painting of Di Cavalcanti.•Diagnosis for ascertaining the authenticity of the work entitled “Violeiro” (1950).•X-Ray fluorescence spectroscopy and image analysis.•Image analyses allow some identification as hidden underlying lines.•Materials and techniques not characteristic of the artist.
This paper presents systematic studies and analysis that contributed to the identification of the forgery of a work by the artist Emiliano Augusto Cavalcanti de Albuquerque e Melo, known as Di Cavalcanti. The use of several areas of expertise such as brush stroke analysis (“pinacologia”), applied physics, and art history resulted in an accurate diagnosis for ascertaining the authenticity of the work entitled “Violeiro” (1950). For this work we used non-destructive methods such as techniques of infrared, ultraviolet, visible and tangential light imaging combined with chemical analysis of the pigments by portable X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) and graphic gesture analysis. Each applied method of analysis produced specific information that made possible the identification of materials and techniques employed and we concluded that this work is not consistent with patterns characteristic of the artist Di Cavalcanti.