An infrared image of Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto, an early piece from Pablo Picasso’s Blue Period, has revealed a hidden portrait of a woman underneath. This discovery offers insight into Picasso’s artistic process and the reuse of canvases during his youth in Paris. The identity of the woman remains a mystery, with speculation that she may have been a model, friend, or lover of Picasso, resembling other seated women in his works from the same period.
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