A captivating secret has emerged from one of Pablo Picasso’s most famous Blue Period paintings. Hidden beneath 'Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto' (1901) is an earlier painting of an ...

One of the earliest pieces from Pablo Picasso's iconic Blue Period has revealed an unexpected ... The 1901 painting titled "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" portrays the eponymously named ...

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 ...

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 ...

Beneath the melancholy hues of Portrait of Mateu Fernández ... figure beneath the surface of the early Blue Period work, providing new insights into Picasso’s creative process and raising ...

The image of a woman was revealed beneath Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" (1901) through infrared imaging organized by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. (all images ...

A captivating secret has emerged from one of Pablo Picasso’s most famous Blue Period paintings. Hidden beneath 'Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto' (1901) is an earlier painting of an enigmatic woman ...