#art-market-fraud

#art-market-fraud

The investigation was triggered in 2015 following a complaint from Catherine Hutin, the daughter of Picasso's last partner Jacqueline Roque, after she discovered that works were missing from the unit she had rented from Bouvier's company, in a Paris suburb. Eight years before, she had asked Olivier Thomas, an art dealer and mutual friend of hers and Bouvier's, to sell Picasso's last residence on the Riviera, the Mas Notre-Dame-de-Vie in Mougins, and move the furniture to the storage unit.