A portrait of a mystery woman was found beneath Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
By abandoning this earlier portrait and painting over it, Picasso was probably “not just changing the subject but also changing his style as he developed his famous Blue Period way of painting ...
several works from Picasso's cubist and surrealist periods, and studies for famous paintings such as "Demoiselles d’Avignon" (1907). The paper works are presented alongside some of Picasso's ...
The painting, titled “Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto,” dates back to 1901, the beginning of Picasso’s famous Blue Period, which marked a pivotal juncture in his career. Further ...
said it discovered the mystery woman's portrait by using the imaging technology to further examine one of Picasso's very first paintings from his famous Blue Period. The conservators took x-ray ...