Diana Widmaier Picasso

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Diana Widmaier Picasso (born March 12, 1974) is a French art historian and curator who lives in Paris. She specializes in modern art and is the daughter of Maya Widmaier-Picasso and the granddaughter of Pablo Picasso and Marie-Thérèse Walter.

She earned a master’s degree in private law from Panthéon-Assas University in Paris and a master’s in art history from the Sorbonne. Her art history thesis looked at the French art market in the 17th century, and she later focused on old master drawings.

Diana has worked on museum exhibitions, including at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Institut Néerlandais in Paris. She also spent three years working on old master drawings at Sotheby’s in London and Paris.

In 2003 she started DWP Editions to gather information about her grandfather’s works. In 2017 she co-founded the jewelry company Menē with Roy Sebag and serves as its chief artistic officer.

She has been honored as a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2017) and was promoted to Officer in 2022.

Since 2013 she has been working on a catalogue raisonné of Picasso’s sculptures with researchers Olivia Speer and Claire Rougé.