Plot thickens over contested Picasso bust

The latest papers from an ongoing lawsuit over the sale of Picasso’s bust of Marie-Thérèse Walter (1931), involving the Qatari royal family, Larry Gagosian and Maya Widmaier-Picasso (Marie-Thérèse’s daughter), were filed on 11 March. They claim that Widmaier-Picasso cancelled a deal, brokered by the former Christie’s executive Guy Bennett, to sell the bust for $42m to the Qatari royal family, after receiving, in May 2015, a better offer from Larry Ga