A self-portrait that was painted over...
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The hidden self-portrait was covered by layers of glue and cardboard on the back of an earlier work called Head of a Peasant Woman.
The gallery's senior conservator Lesley Stevenson said she felt "shock" to find the artist "looking out at us".
She said: "When we saw the X-ray for the first time, of course we were hugely excited.
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