Picasso Museum is showing a display of works by Françoise Gilot who walked away from the Spanish master

The artists Vivan Sundaram and Françoise Gilot, collectors Harald Falckenberg and Barry Humphries plus curator Vincent Honoré were also lost to the art world this year

The French painter and memoirist, who worked in Paris, London and the United States, showed elegance and ferocity in her work and a remarkable versatility as a colourist

Paloma Ruiz-Picasso, whose mother Françoise Gilot died in June, takes over from her brother Claude

Gilot, whose distinctive figurative paintings span eight decades, infamously dumped the famous Spanish artist