マニラのピカソ - Living, Loving, Thinking, Again

承前*1

Rebecca Ratcliffe “‘Lost’ Picasso spotted in Imelda Marcos’s home after son’s election win” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/may/13/lost-picasso-spotted-in-imelda-marcos-home-after-son-bongbong-election-win

比律賓では「ピカソ」が話題になっている。
ボンボン・マルコスが大統領選挙当選の報告のために母親である女家長のイメルダのアパートメントを訪問した映像が公開されたが、イメルダの部屋には、2014年に押収された筈のピカソ *2の「横たわる女IV（Femme Couchée VI）」が架けられていた*3。

It is unclear if the painting, one of eight targeted for seizure by anti-corruption authorities in 2014, is genuine, but the unexpected appearance of the nude in blues and greens reclining on an orange and yellow bed has added to fears the family will use its now-increased power to brazenly further stifle efforts to recover ill-gotten wealth.

Ruben Carranza, a former commissioner for the presidential commission on good government (PCGG), which was set up to investigate and recover ill-gotten wealth, said it was unclear if the painting was a genuine Picasso.
“Mrs Marcos has had a habit of buying fake paintings, as well as lending fake paintings for display,” Carranza said.
But he added: “The fact that she’s now displaying it just shows not just the duplicity of Mrs Marcos – but that she has to display the duplicity and the extravagance that she thinks she’s displaying for Filipinos to see … That says something even worse.”
He added: “It shows this really, absolutely uncaring attitude for Filipinos. They’ve not only now been led to believe that [the Marcoses] have gold. Now, they’re leading them to believe, again, that they have so much wealth that they can just display it whenever they please,” said Carranza.

また、比律賓では、マルコス家は大量の金を所持しており、マルコス家が権力を奪還した暁には比律賓国民に再分配されるという噂がまことしやかにに語られてきた。

For years, there has been speculation online that the Marcoses have huge sums of gold, which was given to Marcos Sr by a wealthy family as payment for acting as their lawyer. According to the story, the gold would be shared with the people if the family regained power.
Marcos Jr has either downplayed or denied the abuses that occurred in the Phlippines under his father. As president, he would have the power to appoint the commissioners of the PCGG, granting him huge influence over the body that was set up to recover the family’s wealth.

*1:https://sumita-m.hatenadiary.com/entry/2022/05/14/152747

*3:後述のように、これが本物なのかレプリカなのかはわからない。