An Italian family hopes to prove definitively that a painting discarded from a villa on Capri more than 60 years ago is a Picasso.

The son of a collector was stunned to discover that a “junk” painting in his father’s attic was actually a Pablo Picasso painting worth more than $6 million. Andrea Lo Rosso, 60, told The Guardian that his father,

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.