A mystery woman, long concealed beneath a work from Picasso's early Blue Period, has been uncovered by researchers, shedding new light on the artist’s creative process. View on euronews

Nearly 125 years after Pablo Picasso painted one portrait, high-tech imaging tools have revealed a secret — another, earlier portrait concealed beneath.

Conservators at London's Courtauld Institute used x-ray and infrared images to reveal the previously unseen works

The most studied period of Pablo Picasso's career, it seems, still had a secret to keep: a mystery woman hidden beneath a well-known portrait, now revealed by conservators at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.

Art historians studying a painting by Pablo Picasso have uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman, hidden beneath its surface.