Maya Widmaier-Picasso (1935–2022) – Artforum International
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on December 23, 2022
Maya Widmaier-Picasso, the only daughter of Spanish painter Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter and the protector of her father’s legacy, died in Paris on December 20 of pulmonary failure. She was eighty-seven. Widmaier-Picasso was the second of her father’s four children, arriving after Paulo, the artist’s son with ballerina Olga Khoklova, his first wife, and before his son Claude and daughter Paloma, both with painter Françoise Gilot. Famously depicted by her father in the 1938 work 
