A French auction house is selling a work by Picasso that has not been seen in public for more than 80 years. Consigned to Lucien Paris auction house, Buste de femme au chapeau à fleurs was painted by Picasso in 1943 and acquired by a private French collector the following August. Crucially the auction house says that an authentication certificate has been issued for the piece by the Comité Picasso—the committee established to verify the originality of the artist’s works. For a wider public Maar has been defined by Picasso’s depictions of her, particularly as the Weeping Woman (1937). Maar’s separation from Picasso affected her mental health and her later years were spent largely in isolation.