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Revealed: Picasso’s granddaughter owned a Van Gogh—which she sold at Sotheby’s

The artist's granddaughter was furious with his treatment of her grandmother Olga, but his death gave her the wealth to buy work by other masters

Martin Bailey
8 August 2025
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Van Gogh’s Woman in a Wood (September-October 1882)

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