Maya Picasso, daughter of the Modern painter, and devoted custodian of his legacy, has died, aged 87. The news of her death from pulmonary complications at her home in Paris was confirmed by her son, the actor Olivier Widmaier-Picasso. She “died peacefully, surrounded by her family”—including himself, his sister and father—he tells The Art Newspaper. Maya was the eldest daughter of the late painter and the only child of her mother, Marie-Thérèse Walter. As an “illegitimate” child, her birth and first years of childhood had to be kept secret, she once said. She authenticated many of the late painter’s works and gave to exhibitions and the French state. “For my mother it was a duty,” said her daughter Diana Widmaier-Picasso. “I think all the expertise she developed was a way for her to continue living with her dad, with her own personality” Read the obituary in full via the link in our bio.