A captivating secret has emerged from one of Pablo Picasso’s most famous Blue Period paintings ... which features Picasso’s friend, the Spanish sculptor Mateu Fernández de Soto.

The Blue Period was an uncertain and depressing time for Picasso, as he flitted between Paris and Barcelona, haunted by the suicide of his friend Carlos Casagemas, who he travelled to France with ...

She could have been a model, a friend, or even a lover, posing for one of Picasso’s earlier works, which often captured scenes from Parisian nightlife. Some have commented on her resemblance to the ...

Historians recently made an unexpected discovery while examining one of Pablo Picasso’s paintings: a portrait of a woman.

And this episode’s Work of the Week is Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto (1901) by Pablo Picasso, a painting from the artist’s Blue Period ... Picasso’s friend and fellow artist.

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

One of the earliest pieces from Pablo Picasso's iconic Blue Period has revealed an unexpected ... portrays the eponymously named sculptor, a friend of the young Picasso. At just 19 years old ...