Painting found in basement by junk dealer is a Picasso
As a young man, Luigi Lo Rosso used to scour garbage dumps and abandoned homes in Italy for items to sell at his family's shop in Pompeii. In 1962, he was poking around the basement of a Capri villa when he came across a rolled-up canvas. It was an oil painting featuring a bizarre asymmetrical face on it. Apparently, the signature Picasso didn't have an…
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