ピカソ作品８点、娘が相続税で納付　フランス

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】スペインの画家パブロ・ピカソの娘マヤ・ルイス・ピカソさん（８６）が２０日、ピカソの作品８点とスケッチブック１冊を、相続税としてフランスに納めた。（写真は資料写真）
　マヤさんは、ピカソとフランス人モデル、マリーテレーズ・ワルテルの娘。
　ピカソの絵画６点と彫像２点が、パリの国立ピカソ美術館に渡された。
　ピカソの孫オリビエ・ビドマイエール・ピカソさんによると、絵画「Ｔｈｅ　ｃｈｉｌｄ　ｗｉｔｈ　ｔｈｅ　ｌｏｌｌｉｐｏｐ　ｓｉｔｔｉｎｇ　ｕｎｄｅｒ　ａ　ｃｈａｉｒ（いすの下に座りキャンディーをくわえた子ども）」はマヤさんがモデルとされ、第２次世界大戦直前の恐怖に包まれた世界を表現している。
　納められた作品は家族が受け継いできたもので、ピカソがアトリエにトーテムとして飾っていたポリネシア風の像も含まれている。
　最も古い作品は画家だった父親を描いた１８９５年の作品「ドン・ホセ・ルイス」、最も新しい作品は９１歳で死去する２年前、１９７１年夏のキュービズム作品「男の頭部」。
　来年４月から、ピカソ美術館で展示される。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/09/22-10:21）

One of Picasso's daughters has given eight of his artworks and a book of drawings to the French state in lieu of inheritance tax at a ceremony on Monday.
Six paintings and two statues by the Spanish master were handed over to the state-run Picasso Museum in Paris by his daughter Maya Ruiz-Picasso, his daughter by French model Marie-Therese Walter.
They include The child with the lollipop sitting under a chair, likely featuring Maya as a child, and representing a fearful world on the eve of World War II, according to grandson Olivier Widmaier Picasso.
He was at a press conference at the museum alongside Culture Minister Roselyne Bachelot, who called the donation one of the most important of recent decades.
The works were heirlooms for his children, and include a statue in a Polynesian style of a type the artist kept as totems in his workshop.
The oldest work is dated to 1895 -- a traditional portrait of his father, Don Jose Ruiz, also a painter.
The most recent is Head of a Man, a cubist portrait from summer 1971, two years before his death at the age of 91.
They will be on show at the Picasso Museum, which has the largest collection of his works in the world, from April 2022.
The value of the works was not given for reasons of tax secrecy, as the donation allows 86-year-old Ruiz-Picasso to pay off her inheritance tax in kind.