Picasso ring may fetch up to £500k

A ring designed and crafted by Pablo Picasso to appease his angry lover is expected to fetch up to £500,000 at an auction this month. The artist gifted the jewellery to his muse, the painter and poet Dora Maar, after she threw her own ring into the River Seine during a lovers’ tiff in the 1930s.

Picasso created a replacement featuring her portrait, which she kept until her death in 1997.

It is going under the hammer at the Sotheby’s Actual Size sale on 21 June following the sale of her estate.