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.

“She might have been just someone who modeled for Picasso … she might have been a lover, she might have been a friend.” Picasso was just 19 years old when he arrived in Paris in 1901 but he ...

a friend or even a lover posing for one of Picasso's paintings. The Courtauld said there's evidence toward the bottom of the painting that suggests that it was a "much-reworked canvas" and that ...