IN COURT, PICASSO’S DAUGHTER FACES SETBACK OVER SCULPTURE DISPUTE

A French court has ruled that the daughter of Pablo Picasso, Maya Widmaier-Picasso, cannot void the seizure order for the 1931 bust of Picasso’s mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter, according to Doreen Carvajal in the New York Times. A group representing the Qatari royal family, Pelham, attempted to confiscate the work after it was seen in the recent Picasso show at the Museum of Modern Art. Pelham claims that Widmaier-Picasso vowed to sell the family the work for forty-two million dollars. Larry Gagosian later bought it for about $106 million, subsequently selling it to New York collector Leon D. Black.