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 ...

For more than a century, a portrait of a mystery woman lay hidden beneath a painting from Pablo Picasso’s famed Blue Period. Now, with the help of advanced imaging technology, conservators at ...

Conservators at The Courtauld Institute in London have discovered an image of a mystery woman hidden beneath one of Picasso’s most famous Blue Period paintings. The unknown image was discovered ...

The concealed figure, a woman resembling Picasso’s early muses, highlights his evolving style and the Blue Period's transition. Her identity remains unknown. Source: X/@DikenComTr One of the ...

"It is as if the portrait of de Soto grew out of the figure of the woman below as one style gave way to another. " “Picasso’s way of working to transform one image into another and to be a ...

"Picasso made a range of paintings [at the beginning of his career] in an Impressionistic style, with lively brushwork and bright color," a release from the institute said. "However, by the Autumn ...

Conservators in London, England used infrared and X-ray imaging to reveal a never-before-seen portrait of a woman beneath a popular painting by renowned artist Pablo Picasso. The Courtauld ...

London (CNN) — 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 ...