Will Shank always suspected something was buried beneath Picasso's "Scène de Rue," a somber street scene painted by the precocious 19-year-old Spanish artist in the fall of 1900 during his first ...

Scène de rue à Montmartre, or Street Scene in Montmartre, was painted in spring 1887 and shows a couple and two children ambling past the entrance to the Pepper Mill.

The fortunate family who bought Scène de rue à Montmartre may therefore have paid a similar sum. With inflation, £300 in 1924 would be just over £15,000 ($21,000) today.

Titled Scène de rue à Montmartre (Impasse des deux frères et le Moulin à Poivre) and estimated at €5m to €8m ($6.1m to $9.8m), the painting had never previously been exhibited.

A long-hidden Vincent van Gogh painting is expected to sell for upward of $6 million next month. As Claire Selvin reports for ARTnews, the canvas, titled Scène de rue à Montmartre (Street Scene ...