In a recent interview with Kitaabi Cabins, Pillai spoke passionately about the painting, noting that it is one of Varma's ...

The portrait of the woman “literally emerged before our eyes … piece-by-piece,” because of the mosaic-like way an infrared camera scans an image, Barnaby Wright, deputy head of the Courtauld ...

When taking X-ray and infrared images of a "portrait depicting ... figure of a woman. You can even start to make out her shape just by looking at the painting with the naked eye.” ...