A woman named Sylvia Razanaparana, robed in a white dress atop a marine blue shirt, faces the camera with a blue bucket atop her head. The backdrop is sea blue canvas dotted with drops of white.

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 ...

Why was the woman's portrait beneath the 'de Soto' painting? The Courtauld said there's evidence toward the bottom of the painting that suggests that it was a "much-reworked canvas" and that the ...

News Hidden Woman Portrait Found Beneath Picasso Masterpiece Researchers detected the mysterious figure in the early-blue period painting “Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto” (1901).

Back in 2008, European scientists used synchrotron radiation to reconstruct the hidden portrait of a peasant woman painted by Van Gogh. The artist, known for reusing his canvases, had painted over ...

Left, Madame Moitessier, 1856 Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, oil on canvas, The National Gallery, London and right, Woman with a Book, 1932, Pablo Picasso, oil on canvas, The Norton Simon ...

By Colson Thayer Published on February 12, 2025 03:53PM EST 1 Comment Mysterious portrait of a woman revealed beneath Picasso painting.Credit : The Courtauld/Facebook Historians recently made an ...

The portrait of the woman “literally emerged before our eyes … piece-by-piece,” because of the mosaic-like way an infrared camera scans an image, Barnaby Wright, deputy head of 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 ...