Pablo Picasso's Granddaughter Is Selling $290 Million Worth Of His Art
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<p class="p1">The granddaughter of the famous Spanish artist Pablo Picasso is selling off some art from her private collection for more than $290 million, The New York Post's Page Six is reporting.
<p class="p1">Marina Picasso, who famously published a book accusing her grandfather of destroying her childhood, is putting at least seven of his works up for sale, including a 1923 portrait of Pablo's first wife <span>Olga Kokhlova. </span>
<p class="p2"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">The works are being sold directly by Marina, and she will meet the clients personally in Geneva, according to Page Six. </span>
<p class="p1">The portrait of Picasso's first wife, titled "Portrait de femme (Olga)," could sell for over $60 million.
<p class="p1"><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54aacbe4eab8eac1768dcf4e-800-600/olga-2.jpg" border="0" alt="Picasso">Marina will also be selling the 1911 painting "Femme à la Mandoline (Mademoiselle Leonie assie)" starting at $60 million (pictured on the left), and a 1921 work titled "Maternité" starting at $54 million (right).
<p class="p1"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54aac3e9eab8eaa4518dcf63-800-600/picasso-.jpg" border="0" alt="Picasso ">Marina Picasso is planning to sell her grandfather's villa in Cannes as well. Picasso lived in the villa, called "La Californie," with his second wife Jacqueline Roque.
<p class="p1">The estate previously served as a museum and gallery dedicated to the artist's work.
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<p class="p1">In her 2001 memoir, "Picasso: My Grandfather," she claimed that the painter "drove everyone who got near him to despair and engulfed them."
<p class="p1">A friend of Marina's told Page Six that the decision to sell is "about letting go of the past."
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