From bedroom to auction block

A rare painting by Pablo Picasso is to be sold April 10 after it was discovered in a bedroom alongside two other important works.

Duke’s auction house in London said Monday that the watercolor “Etreinte,” depicting the artist in an embrace with lover Louise Lenoir, was found propped up against a wall with two equine paintings by British artists George Stubbs and Alfred Munnings. The identity of the seller was not disclosed.

The Picasso was thought to have been painted in 1901 or 1902, when the Spanish master was a struggling artist in his early 20s.