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A n**e portrait of a crouching woman has been discovered beneath the surface of a painting by Pablo Picasso, titled The Blind Man's Meal, housed at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, and thanks to Artificial Intelligence and 3D printing it has been recreated.
This is The Lonesome Crouching N**e, initially revealed in part by a superimposed X-ray fluorescence image; the recreation of this hidden work is thanks to Oxia Palus, a company that uses technology to bring lost art back to life. To succeed, the company used XRF imaging and image processing to try to define the outline of the hidden painting; then Artificial Intelligence stepped in and added brush strokes to the portrait in the famous artist's style.
The next step was to create a height map of the portrait to give it texture, and finally the image was printed on canvas using 3D printing.

It was recovered only many years later, in 1904, by the psychiatrist Iwan Bloch, who printed it believing that it was an exceptional document also from the scientific point of view, given the descriptions, in the novel, of many cases of psychiatric interest. Purchased in 1929 by Viscount Charles de Noailles, it was reprinted in the thirties, without the translation errors of the version published by Bloch. Then purchased in 1982 by collector Gérard Nordmann, it was then bought again, for 7 million euros, in 2014 by entrepreneur Gérard Lhéritier. After Lhéritier's company went into liquidation, the manuscript was declared a "national treasure" in 2017 and subsequently returned to the market: 4.55 million euros were needed to secure it, and the French state, at the beginning of the year, launched an appeal, through the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, to find patrons willing to pay the sum.
The appeal finally struck a chord: the banker Emmanuel Boussard, founder of the Boussard & Gavaudan investment fund, responded by making available the entire sum needed to complete the purchase. Boussard's grandfather was the curator of the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal between 1943 and 1964, and so, explained the French Ministry of Culture, the businessman wanted to demonstrate his attachment to the institution.