Welcome to Learning English, a daily 30 minute program from the Voice of America.

I'm Ashley Thompson.

And I'm Mario Ritter Jr.

This program is designed for English learners

so we speak a little slower and we use words and phrases especially written for people

learning English. Today Mario tells us about an Italian family's aim to prove its painting is the work of Pablo Picasso.

Later Brian Lynn presents the work of Pablo Picasso.

Later Brian Lynn presents this week's science report.

We close the show with the lesson of the day.

But first. A family in Italy hopes to prove that a painting found

long ago on the island of Capri is the work of Spanish artist Pablo Picasso.

The family has been gathering scientific evidence to support the claim.

It wants officials of the Picasso estate to confirm Picasso as the painting's creator.

A man found the painting in a load of waste he took possession of as a junk dealer more than

60 years ago.

He hung the picture in his home for a long time.

Later it hung in a restaurant in Pompeii, Italy.

Then the man's son, Andrea Lo Russo, began to investigate the painting that he said his mother described as ugly.

He said he first came to think the painting was important after seeing a picture of a Picasso painting in a school

book. Later, as a young adult, Loeso and his brother took the painting to Paris.

They showed it to experts at the Picasso Museum there.

They looked and they said, it is not possible,

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