The painting in the living room is worth 8.7 billion won, which turned out to be Picasso's work
Oct 02, 2024
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Andrea Lo Rosso, 60, said her father Luigi, who worked as a junk dealer, discovered the painting while cleaning a basement of a house in Capri, Italy, in 1962, according to foreign media including the New York Post.
Luigi hung it on the living room wall of his house in Pompeii for decades in a cheap frame, not knowing who Picasso was.
Luigi's wife opposed hanging it on the wall, saying the painting was terrible, but she couldn't break her husband's will.
His son Andrea was reading Picasso's work in the childhood encyclopedia and compared it to the signature in the painting. I kept telling my father it was similar, but he ignored it."
Growing up, Andrea was constantly curious and recently asked an expert to confirm the authenticity of her work.
After months of researching the painting, an expert concluded that it was actually Picasso's work.
It is believed to have been painted between 1930 and 1936, and until their separation in 1945, it turned out to be a portrait of Dora Maar, Picasso's government (情婦), French photographer and painter.
The painting is currently being held in a safe in Milan and is awaiting final judgment by the Picasso Foundation in Malaga, Spain.
If the actual Picasso work is correct, it is estimated to be worth approximately $6.6 million (about 8.75 billion won).
"My father died before the painting was certified for the first time," Andrea said. "The goal is to reveal the truth. My family is not interested in making money from it," he said.
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