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French police ‘stumble upon £13m stolen Picasso painting during drug raid’

Local reports say artwork was of Marie-Thérèse Walter, Picasso’s mistress and ‘golden muse’

The Independent UK

Why Dublin is the surprising city to delve into Picasso’s troubling relationship with women

TRAVEL IN FOCUS: Not focusing just on Picasso, but also highlighting the importance of the other people around him, a new exhibition at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin, in partnership with the Musée Picasso in Paris, promises a new perspective on the troubled artist, writes Michael Hodges

The Independent UK

Hidden Portraits: The Untold Stories of Six Women Who Loved Picasso by Sue Roe review – artist as lothario

Françoise Gilot is the most compelling figure in this biography of the painter’s lovers – but you get the feeling she would have loathed this book

The Guardian - UK

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Picasso’s portrait of secret lover sells for $139.4 million at auction

Spanish patiner’s ‘Femme à la montre’, which told the world he was having an affair with his ‘golden muse’, is the most valuable piece of art sold this year

The Independent UK

Pablo Picasso painting sells for more than $139 million in New York

The 1932 painting 'Femme à la montre' becomes most valuable work of art sold globally at an auction this year

Evening Standard

Picasso portrait of Marie-Thérèse Walter expected to reach $120m at auction

Femme à la Montre, one of artist’s few major works featuring a wristwatch, to be sold by Sotheby’s in New York

The Guardian - UK

Picasso: The Beauty and the Beast on BBC Two review – a missed opportunity for a radical take on the artist

The problem with the series is it feels too safe

Evening Standard

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Pablo Picasso’s grandson says artist’s lovers ‘knew’ about his behaviour: ‘No one was forced to do anything’

Grandson of the Spanish artist and his lover and muse, Marie-Thérèse Walter, defends the artist as his work is celebrated in a series of exhibitions around the world

The Independent UK

‘His life was full of contradictions’: Picasso’s grandson defends the artist’s behaviour towards women

The painter has been called out as a misogynist but Olivier Widmaier Picasso says his numerous lovers knew his nature

The Guardian - UK

Picasso 50 years on: Greatest artist of the 20th century, or cancel-worthy misogynist?

Half a century since Picasso’s death, does the great artist’s misogyny now endanger his legacy? Alastair Smart explores why this is no straightforward set of anniversary celebrations

The Independent UK

Review: Picasso season arrives in LA with two smashing museum shows

LOS ANGELES — It's Picasso season in Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Times

Letters: secret, broken family courts betrayed me and my child

Children and protective parents are being let down by a system in which pseudo-science holds sway

The Guardian - UK

‘A genius is a sponge’: inside the new Picasso exhibition that isn’t all about Picasso

The Picasso Century at Australia’s NGV sees the artist share the spotlight with 50 of his contemporaries, and explains how one man could ‘catch and translate all the values of a time’

The Guardian - AU

Picasso, Monet and Cézanne lead the way in $400m New York art auction

Ten works sell for more than $10m each in sale featuring giants of art, also including Gauguin and Magritte

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Picasso portrait of lover and muse to appear at auction for first time

Sotheby’s expects Femme nue couchée, which depicts Marie-Thérèse Walter as a sea-creature, to fetch over $60m next month

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