Tag #X-Ray

What previously unknown details about Picasso's early artistic process and personal life have been revealed by the discovery of the hidden portrait?

A previously unknown portrait of a mysterious woman by Pablo Picasso has been discovered hidden beneath one of his early Blue Period paintings, 'Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto' (1901). The discovery was made using X-ray and infrared technology by conservators at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. The hidden portrait, discernible in the underlying layers, shows a woman's head, bun, shoulders, and fingers.