"People say I should appreciate my inheritance, and I do, but it is an inheritance without love," says the granddaughter of Pablo Picasso, Marina.

She has 10,000 works of Picasso art, and she's about to sell them off, one by one, to turn them into money "to redistribute to humanitarian causes." The first work she will sell is "a 1935 work called La Famille which depicts a family in an arid landscape."

“It’s symbolic because I was born in a great family, but it was a family that was not a family,” she said.

That is possibly an understatement of her true feelings. In her 2001 memoir, Picasso: My Grandfather, she describes a man who was “incapable of love”. How her father died two years after the artist under the “yoke of his tyranny … betrayed, disappointed, demeaned. Destroyed.” And the tragedy of her brother, Pablito, “the plaything of Picasso’s sadism and indifference”, who later killed himself. She also wrote disparagingly of the people who granted him power and “raised him to the level of God: the experts, art historians, curators, critics, not to mention courtiers, parasites, bootlickers."

The author of the books "Art as an Investment," Melanie Gerlis, commented on the effect Marina's sales might have on the market: "I don’t think auctions and dealers are going to say this is a disaster, it won’t take a ton of business away from them, they may see it as just a shame."

There are different kinds of shame.