Larry Gagosian says he paid $106m in 2015 for Bust of a Woman,a sculpture of Picasso’s muse, but Qatari royal family says they bought it for $47.6m in 2014Was Pablo Picasso’s sculpture of his muse Marie-Thérèse Walter so good they sold it twice?In a legal action filed on Tuesday morning in the US district court in Manhattan, or über-art dealer Larry Gagosian filed suit against agents of the Qatari royal family over the ownership of Bust of a Woman,a plaster bust of Picassos muse-slash-mistress currently on display in a well-liked exhibition at the Museum of contemporary Art.
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Source: theguardian.com