Picasso effects for auction

Paris - A host of little-known Picasso canvases, drawings and trinkets hidden away in a Paris flat for half a century by one …

Paris - A host of little-known Picasso canvases, drawings and trinkets hidden away in a Paris flat for half a century by one of his lovers go under the hammer tomorrow.

Theodora Markovic, known as Dora Maar, was the Spanish artist's lover for seven years in a crucial period of his life encompassing the Spanish Civil War and most of the second World War. She died last year aged 90.

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