X-ray and infrared scans revealed that Picasso had painted over the woman’s portrait. Like many of his other reworked pieces, the artist painted directly over the older work rather than ...

The conservators took x-ray and infrared images of "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto," a portrait painted by a 19-year-old Picasso in 1901 depicting his Spanish sculptor friend, Mateu ...

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 ...

The portrait of the woman was lost in 1901, when Picasso painted a portrait of his sculptor friend Mateu Fernández De Soto over the original. But almost 125 years later, the original portrait’s ...