Over the course of three years, Picasso diverged from painting convention, utilizing expressive brushwork and a now famously moody blue-green palette. His Blue Period paintings have become widely ...

The discovery was made while studying the painting, which features Picasso’s friend, the Spanish sculptor Mateu Fernández de Soto. The portrait, marked by Picasso’s sombre blue and green ...

Researchers have uncovered a hidden painting beneath Pablo Picasso’s Portrait of Mateu ... was dominated by melancholic shades of blue and green—a change that followed the death of his close ...