Italian Family Aims to Prove Its Painting Is a Picasso — VOA Learning English
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A family in Italy hopes to prove that a painting found long ago on the island of Capri is the work of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.
The family has been gathering scientific evidence to support the claim. It wants officials of the Picasso estate to confirm Picasso as the painting’s creator.
A man found the painting in a load of waste he took possession of as a junk dealer more than 60 years ago. He hung the picture in his home for a long time. Later, it hung in a restaurant in Pompei, Italy.
Then the man’s son, Andrea Lo Russo, began to investigate the painting that, he said, his mother described as “ugly.”
He said he first came to think the painting was important after seeing a picture of a…
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