This just in...: Picasso family sues over newly discovered trove of art
Pierre Le Guennec, former electrician to Pablo Picasso, 2010. (AP/Lionel Cironneau)
Pablo Picasso's son Claude has filed suit against a retired French electrician who says the artist's second wife gave him a trunk full of 271 sketches and watercolors -- a previously undocumented stash estimated at more than $50 million. The Picassos learned about Pierre Le Guennec's collection when he came to them for authentication, AP reports; instead, they sued, and police confiscated it all.
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