Experts analyzing the painting have several theories about why this unidentified woman has remained submerged for more than a ...

"Picasso often reused his canvases at this time because he did not have much money," the institute explained Historians ...

A mystery woman, long concealed beneath a work from Picasso's early Blue Period, has been uncovered by researchers, shedding ...

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 ...

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 ...