When taking X-ray and infrared images of a "portrait depicting Picasso’s sculptor friend painted in 1901 and one of the earliest examples of the artist’s Blue Period," conservators at The ...

and it represents the latest example of technology’s power to unravel old art mysteries. Pablo Picasso's painting “Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto” has revealed a hidden secret.

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface. The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it ...