Diana Widmaier Picasso


Diana Widmaier Picasso is a French art historian specialising in modern art, and living in Paris.

Life

Diana Widmaier Picasso is the daughter of Maya Widmaier-Picasso, and the maternal granddaughter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter. After a master's degree in private law, and a master's degree in art history — her thesis was about the art market in France in the seventeenth century — she decided to specialise in old master drawings. She worked on several exhibitions in museums, and worked in old master drawings at Sotheby's in London and Paris for three years.
She is the co-founder, with Roy Sebag, and chief artistic officer of a jewelry company called Menē launched in 2017.
In 2017, she was named Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.
In 2022, she was named Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by Rima Abdul Malak.

DWP Editions - Catalogue raisonné

In 2003, Diana Widmaier Picasso set up a company called DWP Editions and started gathering information on her grandfather’s works. Since 2013, she has been working on a catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculptures with a team of researchers.

Curatorial works