Visual arts|The piece is believed to depict Dora Maaria, Pablo Picasso’s mistress.
Italian it is believed that a scrap dealer unknowingly found a genuine one years ago Pablo Picasso board. Luigi Lo Rosso – had found the painting in 1962 in Pompeii in the basement of a home that he was emptying. The man had brought the rolled up work from there to his home in Capri.
It then hung on the wall of the man’s home in cheap frames for decades, says the British newspaper The Guardian.
“My father discovered the painting before I was even born and he had no idea who Picasso was. He was not a very civilized person,” the man’s son Andrea Lo Rosso tells the magazine.
“While reading about Picasso’s work in an encyclopedia, I looked at the painting and compared its signature to Picasso’s other works. I told my dad it looked the same but he didn’t understand. The matter did not leave me alone.”
He also says that the family considered giving up the board many times. “My mother didn’t want to keep it, she thought the board was creepy.”
The painting suspected to be Picasso’s work hung on the wall of the Lo Rosso family’s home for a year.
The board the father who found it has since died, but the son continued to solve the riddle of the board and asked experts for help. He contacted the Picasso Foundation in Málaga several times, but it was not interested in investigating the matter.
Finally, a well-known Italian art researcher, among others, began to study the work Maurizio Seacini. After years of research, the graphologist Cinzia Altieri from the British Arcadia Foundation confirmed that the signature on the painting is indeed Picasso’s.
“After all the other research on the painting was done, I was tasked with examining the signature. I worked for months and compared it to some of Picasso’s original works. There is no doubt that the signature is his. Couldn’t find any evidence that it was fake,” Altieri told The Guardian .
The value of the work is estimated at six million euros.
According to The Guardian, the final verdict on the painting’s authenticity will be given by the Picasso Foundation.
The work believed to present Dora Mariaa French photographer and painter who was the mistress and muse of the Spanish Pablo Picasso. Picasso often visited the southern Italian island of Capri, and the painting is thought to have been created there between 1930 and 1936.