Picasso’s Art To Be Sold By His Granddaughter

Pablo Picasso’s granddaughter, Marina Picasso, is selling more than $290 million worth of his art.  Marina is selling at leas seven of his works, including a famed 1923 portrait of his first wife Olga, titled “Portrait de femme (Olga)” for about $60 million.  She is selling the works directly by meeting with clients personally in Geneva. 

Marina has written that Picasso would not aid her family when she was a child.  Her brother committed suicide in 1973, after reportedly not being allowed by Picasso’s second wife to see Picasso on his deathbed.  “He drove everyone who got near him to despair and engulfed them,” Marina wrote of her grandfather.  She says her inheritance was “given without love.”

See Tony Hicks, Pablo Picasso’s Granddaughter Selling Off His Art, Marinij Entertainment, Jan. 5, 2015. 

Special thanks to Brian Cohan (Attorney at Law, Law Offices of Brian J. Cohan, P.C.) for bringing this article to my attention.