Art: AI recreates painting of a hidden nude that lies beneath one of Picasso's existing masterpieces

A hidden Picasso painting of a naked, crouching woman that lies underneath one of his other works has been reconstructed by scientists using artificial intelligence and three-dimensional printing. The team from University College London (UCL) said that their one-off replica of'The Lonesome Crouching Nude' will ensure the work is no longer'erased from history'. Experts believe that Picasso painted over the work with some reluctance in order to reuse the expensive canvas at a time, early in his career, when he was relatively poor. The original was first revealed under Picasso's late 1903 work'The Blind Man's Meal' -- a restatement of the Christian sacrament -- by X-ray fluorescence scans in 2010. Its discovery ended a long search for the lost work -- which was known from its depiction in the background of'La Vie', a contemporary oil painting by Picasso.