Novel tax payment of the week

(pictured), 86, the daughter of artist Pablo Picasso and his muse and lover, Marie-Thérèse Walter, has handed over, said to depict Ruiz-Picasso as a girl. The oldest, a traditional portrait of Picasso’s father, José Ruiz y Blasco, is dated 1895, while the most recent, , was painted in 1971, two years before Picasso’s death, aged 91. The collection also comprises two sculptures and a sketchbook. While a value was not placed on the works at a ceremony in Paris on Monday, at which Bruno Le Maire, France’s finance minister, was present, the collection is thought to be worth tens of millions of pounds. Since 1968, individuals have been allowed to settle tax bills with “recognised cultural goods of high artistic or historical value”.