An Italian family hopes to prove definitively that a painting discarded from a villa on Capri more than 60 years ago is a Picasso.
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A painting is seen at a restoration laboratory in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. Luca Marcante, founder of the Arcadia Foundation, poses next to a painting in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. A painting is seen at a restoration laboratory in Milan, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024.
They include lab tests that show the paints used were consistent with Picasso’s color palette during the period in question, said Luca Marcante, a trained chemist who founded the Arcadia Foundation in 2000 to investigate the provenance of artworks. Most recently, a handwriting expert authenticated the signature on the upper-left hand corner as that of Picasso, Marcante said.
Marcante said that there is photographic proof Picasso visited the ruins of Pompeii in 1917, and asserts that he likely also visited nearby Capri, where he may have painted the Lo Russo-owned canvas sometime in the early 1940s, leaving it behind “forgotten in time.”
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