Diana Widmaier-Picasso, Curating an Exhibition Devoted to her Mother Maya

Before the summer, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, the grandson of Picasso and Olga, opened the Boisgeloup house temporarily. Now Diana Widmaier-Picasso, granddaughter of the master and Marie-Thérèse Walter, is curating an exhibition devoted to her mother Maya at the Gagosian Gallery in Paris. At a time when the Musée Picasso is celebrating the artist through his work of 1932, "an erotic year" symbolising his relationship with Marie-Thérèse Walter, Diana is keen to continue to highlight and analyse her grandfather's work. You are now a specialist in Picasso's work, but this was hardly the case when you started out… That's true. I did a Masters in Law and another in Art History, in view of becoming an auctioneer. I spent all my time at Drouot, where I did a huge number of courses. I adored it. But I didn't take the exam. I decided to specialise in Old Master drawings at the Met in New York for two years, then at Sotheby's in London, and then in Paris.   Was this because…