Spanish painter Pablo Picasso[/caption]Art experts have identified a secret painting of Pablo Picasso hidden beneath one of his reputed works titled The Blue Room.
The newly found painting was discovered when the art scientists applied advances in infrared imagery technology on The Blue Room.
The Blue Room was created in 1901, early in Picasso's career, while he was working in Paris at the start of his distinctive blue period of melancholy subjects.
The secret painting features an unknown man wearing a jacket and bow tie with his face resting on his hand with three rings on his fingers.
The experts from the Phillips Collection, National Gallery of Art, Cornell University and Delaware's Winterthur Museum have developed an image with high resolution of the mystery picture under the surface for more than five years.
Technical analysis confirmed the hidden portrait was likely to have been painted just before The Blue Room.
"It is really one of those moments that really makes what you do special," said Patricia Favero, the conservator at the Phillips Collection who pieced together the best infrared image of the man's face.
Research on The Blue Room will continue and curators have planned a 2017 exhibition focusing on the painting and the portrait beneath it.
This is not the first time a hidden image has been found beneath a Picasso artwork, the experts say.
Reworking on Picassos another masterpiece titled Woman Ironing, had earlier revealed a mustached man beneath the painting.
Picasso was a Spanish painter, draughtsman and sculptor, best known for co-founding the Cubist movement and for the wide variety of styles embodied in his work.
Many of Picasso's works have been repeatedly stolen and recovered during recent years. The world-famous artist's 1904 Portrait of Suzanne Bloch was stolen from the Sao Paulo Museum of Art in 2007 and two of his engravings were snatched from a branch of the Pinacoteca Museum in 2008.
Guernica and Les Demoiselles d'Avignon (1907) are among his most famous works.
By Press TV
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