Rediscovered Picasso portrait presented in Paris ahead of much-anticipated auction

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(22 Oct 2025) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Paris, France - 22 October 2025 1. Agnes Sevestre-Barbé and Auctioneer Christophe Lucien unveiling Picasso's "Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat" at the Drouot Auction House 2. Mid of Pablo Picasso's painting 3. Close tilt-up of Picasso's painting 4. Mid of Agnes Sevestre-Barbé handling a 1962 Christian Zervos catalogue featuring Pablo Picasso's work in Paris 5. SOUNDBITE (French) Agnes Sevestre-Barbé, art expert: "We have a painting that is exactly as it was when it left the studio; it wasn't varnished, which means we have all its raw material, all of it. It's a painting where you can feel all the colors, the entire chromatic range. It's a painting that speaks for itself. You just have to look at it; it's full of expression, and you can see all of Picasso's genius because with very minimal means, when you look at the eyes, it's absolutely incredible. There's just a line above, a line below, a circle, and there's an enormous expression. You can feel a certain sadness if you look a little at this painting, especially in the eyes and perhaps in the mouth. Why a certain sadness? Because, in fact, this painting... in July 1943, Dora Maar knew he had met someone else, Françoise Gillot, whom he met in May, and she feels that unfortunately, her relationship with the great master is likely to end soon." 6. Mid of Picasso's "Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat" 7. Wide of Dora Maar 1937 photo portrait by Rosa Klein displayed in Paris exhibition highlighting Picasso's muse 8. SOUNDBITE (French) Agnes Sevestre-Barbé, art expert: "A very complicated relationship because Picasso was indeed with Dora Maar from 1936, but we must not forget that he still had Marie-Thérèse Walter, who was in a corner of his life, with whom he had children, and he would go see Dora, but he didn't abandon his children; he would visit them regularly, not very far away, so Dora knew she had to share, but it wasn't quite in her nature." 9. Various of Picasso's artworks photographed by Brassaï in 1944 10. SOUNDBITE (English) Agnes Sevestre-Barbé, art expert: "It's absolutely wonderful to see this painting today because it's so bright, so colorful, and we can't imagine how on a black and white photo _ because we only knew this painting on black and white photo, it is reproduced in black and white full page in Zervos, but as well on the Brassaï photo I just spoke about _ and we couldn't imagine on this photo that this this painting was so colorful, so amazing, really." 11. Close up of hat detail from Picasso's "Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat" 12. Various of Picasso's vibrant abstract brushwork 13. Wide of Pablo Picasso's rediscovered portrait of Dora Maar "Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat" 14. SOUNDBITE (French) Christophe Lucien, Auctioneer: "The entire world is interested in this work; it's being talked about in all the world capitals with a strong art market, from the United States to Asia, and of course through all the major European markets. Moreover, we will be selling the painting during the Art Basel fair in Paris at the Grand Palais, so all the major dealers on the planet are there, the major collectors are there, and we welcome a very, very large number of visitors each day. We expect just as many during the auction." 15. Mid of Picasso's Dora Maar portrait "Bust of a Woman in a Flowery Hat" 16. Close up of Dora Maar's eyes 17. Close up of Picasso's signature on the painting STORYLINE: Bought in 1944 by the grandfather of the actual owner the painting has not been on the art market since. AP Video shot by Oleg Cetinic Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/5249b4cc161b434f8d84f2e8fef1cb8c