“Yes,” Paul Allen, the co-founder of Microsoft, is claimed to have written in an email. The prize was a Picasso depicting the artist’s muse and lover, Marie-Thérèse Walter, being plucked to safety from water. The only problem, a judge said yesterday, is that Allen may not have written the email. In fact, Mr Justice Trower said, evidence pointed to the email having been fabricated “for the purpose of misleading the court”. The proceedings at the High Court have shed light on the enormous gains to be made by art

Source: The Times November 23, 2020 17:08 UTC