Maya was the daughter of Picasso's mistress, Marie Terreis Walter. He called her his 'little anchovy', a reference to Malaga where he came from. She made up for the loss ofPicasso's sister Maria de la Colsette-Thion who had died when he was 14. Maya naturally took charge as the elder daughter but eventually she began to run into opposition by her half-brother Claude. The Intelligence is on BBC2 at 9pm and 10pm this week.
Charitable giving is being disrupted by the same youthful tech folk who got rich disrupting other sectors: these days it is fast, data-driven and bureaucracy-light. We meet a new class of investors who trade shares from behind bars. And reflecting on the life of Maya Widmaier-Picasso, who spent her childhood painting alongside her father, becoming an expert on his work.
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