A secret Picasso sketch has been found hidden beneath one of his famous artworks after experts used X-ray scans to examine wrinkles on the canvas. The drawing, which appears to show a pitcher, cup and newspaper resting on a chair, was scribbled on the back of the canvas used for his 1922 piece Still Life. The legendary Spanish artist, who created more than 50,000 pieces during his lifetime, regularly reused canvases by painting over previous drawings. 'X-ray and infrared imaging revealed that Picasso had originally painted a neo-classical still life on the canvas,' according to research published in the journal SN Applied Sciences. Similar sketches have previously been found beneath other Picasso masterpieces including that of a man found beneath his painting of a bathing woman in The Blue Room in 2014.

Source: Daily Mail July 22, 2020 17:48 UTC