A painting discovered by a junk dealer in the basement of an Italian villa six decades ago is actually the work of Pablo Picasso and could sell for millions, according to experts.

Junk dealer Luigi Lo Rosso found the piece in 1962, and it has been safely stored in a Milan vault since 2019.

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.

A painting discovered by a junk dealer in the basement of an Italian villa six decades ago is actually the work of Pablo Picasso and could sell for millions, according to experts. Luigi Lo Rosso used to spend his days combing abandoned houses and landfills in search of treasure to sell in the

The portrait featured the famous artist’s signature in the top left-hand corner. But the owner had no idea who he was.

A man discovered an old painting in his home that turned out to be a Picasso worth roughly $6.6 million (£5 million) -- and his wife hated it.

A painting discovered by a junk dealer while cleaning out the cellar of a home in Capri, Italy, may be an authentic Picasso work. Luigi Lo Rosso came across the painting in 1962, when he brought the rolled canvas home with him to Pompeii and hung it in a cheap frame on the wall.

The painting hanging in the living room was the subject of many years of controversy in the Lo Rosso family. It turned out to be signed by Pablo Picasso. In 1962, Luigi Lo Rosso was searching the basement of a house on the Italian island of Capri.