framed it cheaply and hung it on his wall. His wife reportedly described the painting as "ugly." It wasn’t until years later, ...

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Hundreds of rare artworks from giants of modern and contemporary art, including Picasso, Matisse ... and potentially disappear onto somebody’s wall somewhere in the world for another generation.” ...

The painting, titled Buste de femme (1949), “has just been sitting on a wall,” where it has been ... acquired the painting in 1951 from Picasso’s main art dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler.