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 discovery: another figure beneath the surface. This finding provides further insight into the process ...

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 ...

The concealed figure, a woman resembling Picasso’s early muses, highlights his evolving style and the Blue Period's transition ... Picasso painted during that era suggests she may have been ...