A painting that was found by a junk dealer while he was clearing out the cellar of a home in Capri, and was
decried by his wife as “horrible”, is an original portrait by Pablo Picasso, Italian experts have claimed. After he stumbled across the
in 1962, Luigi Lo Rosso took the rolled-up canvas home with him to Pompeii, where it hung in a cheap frame on the living room wall for the next few
. The portrait, which is now believed by its owners to be a distorted image of Dora Maar, a French
and painter who was Picasso’s mistress and muse, featured the famous artist’s distinctive
in the top left-hand corner. But Lo Rosso didn’t know who he was. It was only much later, when his son Andrea started to ask questions after studying an encyclopedia of art
given to him by his aunt, that suspicions were aroused.
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A painting that was found by a junk dealer while he was clearing out the cellar of a home in Capri, and was regularly decried by his wife as “horrible”, is an original portrait by Pablo Picasso, Italian experts have claimed.
After he stumbled across the painting in 1962, Luigi Lo Rosso took the rolled-up canvas home with him to Pompeii, where it hung in a cheap frame on the living room wall for the next few decades.
The portrait, which is now believed by its owners to be a distorted image of Dora Maar, a French photographer and painter who was Picasso’s mistress and muse, featured the famous artist’s distinctive signature in the top left-hand corner. But Lo Rosso didn’t know who he was.
It was only much later, when his son Andrea started to ask questions after studying an encyclopedia of art history given to him by his aunt, that suspicions were aroused.
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