Maya Widmaier-Picasso
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Maya Widmaier-Picasso, a daughter of Picasso who authenticates works attributed to him, said that a drawing of a faun bought in 2004 by a San Francisco doctor through Costco, was not made by her father, and that a certificate accompanying it had been forged. The pronouncement came three weeks after she declared two other drawings offered as Picassos at Costco's Web site to be fake: a sketch of a face and one of a bullfight, which was not sold and has been withdrawn from the site. Dr. Frank Zhang sent the newspaper digital photographs of his own sketch and its accompanying certificate, which appeared to be written and signed by her, who said in a telephone interview that the certificate is fake, ditto the signature, spelling and the drawing. She wrote her authenticating certificates with no breaks between paragraphs and always spelled the month out in letters, never in numbers.