Lost Cubist painting by Leger found on back of another canvas

Gwendolyn Boeve-Jones, founder and director of Studio Redivivus, speaks next to Fernand Leger's painting 'Smoke Over The Rooftops' displayed at Studio Redivivus, a Hague-based art conservation and restoration specialist in The Hague on Oct 4. Photo: AFP

Art experts in the Netherlands said recently they had discovered an important painting by the French Cubist Fernand Leger that had been hidden for more than a century on the back of another canvas.

The unknown work Smoke Over The Rooftops, believed to date from 1911-12, was on the flip-side of Bastille Day, made a year later, according to conservation specialists Studio Redivivus.