Jacqueline, he said, “had problems” with her stepson, Claude. Maybe, he suggested, she wanted to keep some works out of the official count of Picasso's estate.
Claude's lawyer called it “an extravagant tale.” The inventory of Picasso's works, he noted, had been finished in 1978.
Only one person could say whether any of it was true. Jacqueline Picasso had died in 1986.
In December 2016, the appeal court upheld the conviction. The judge called the new account an “implausible and whimsical tale.”