Pablo Picasso's granddaughter selling off his art

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Pablo Picasso's granddaughter is selling more than $290 million worth of his art, according to the New York Post.

Marina Picasso is also selling her grandfather's famed Cannes villa, "La Californie."

Sources reportedly told the Post that Marina -- the daughter of the artist's son, Paulo Picasso -- is selling at least seven of his works, including a 1923 portrait of his first wife Olga, titled "Portrait de femme (Olga)" for about $60 million, a 1921 work titled "Maternite" for about $54 million, plus 1911's "Femme a la Mandoline (Mademoiselle Leonie assie)" for around $60 million.

I wish I would've known about this before I did my last Christmas list.

Marina is selling the works -- which date from 1905 through 1965 -- directly by meeting with clients personally in Geneva.

Marina has written that Picasso wouldn't aid her family financially when she was a child. Marina's brother committed suicide in 1973, after reportedly not being allowed by Picasso's second wife, Jacqueline, to see Picasso on his deathbed.

"He drove everyone who got near him to despair and engulfed them," Marina wrote of her grandfather, in a 2001 memoir. She has said her inheritance was "given without love."

I can come up with about 290 million reasons why I don't feel too sorry for her.

A friend of Marina reportedly told the Post her decision to sell "is about letting go of the past."