Faint images of a women in Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto.". The Courtauld/Facebook “We have long suspected another painting lay behind the portrait,” he continued.

A portrait of a mystery woman was found beneath Pablo Picasso's "Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto" by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

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 ...

The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it, probably a few months afterward, in 1901 to depict his sculptor friend Mateu Fernández de Soto sitting at a table in hues of blues ...

(CNN) – More than a half century after Pablo Picasso’s death, the master is still revealing new works. Art historians studying a Picasso painting uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman ...

The portrait of the woman was lost when Picasso painted over it, probably a few months afterward, in 1901 to depict his sculptor friend Mateu Fernández de Soto sitting at a table in hues of blues ...

But almost 125 years later, the original portrait’s outlines have been revealed by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. They examined the artwork using infrared and X-ray imaging ahead of an ...