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.

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 ...

A portrait of one of Baltimore's medical pioneers, discovered in a storeroom at the former Bertha's Mussels in Fells Point, ...

Over the past year, Connolly’s portrait subjects worked with her to create personal symbols reflecting their inner experience of having children. By painting and designing this dual series, she ...

But one painting — the “Portrait of a Woman” — stands out, both as a break from Degas’s usual subject matter, and as a mystery.

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 ...

Still, remnants of the woman’s portrait remain visible to the trained eye. “Once you know what’s underneath from this technical image and you take that back to the finished painting, you can ...