(CNN) – More than a half century after Pablo Picasso’s death, the master is still revealing new works.
Art historians studying a Picasso painting uncovered the mysterious portrait of a woman hidden beneath the painting’s surface.
The portrait of the woman was lost in 1901, when Picasso painted a portrait of his sculptor friend Mateu Fernández De Soto over the original.
But almost 125 years later, the original portrait’s outlines have been revealed by the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
They examined the artwork using infrared and X-ray imaging ahead of an exhibition.
Experts are still unsure of the woman’s identity, although they said she resembles several other women Picasso painted in Paris in 1901.
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