Fake Picasso paintings prompted a gender war at an Australian gallery

They were billed as artworks by Pablo Picasso, paintings so valuable that an Australian art museum’s decision to display them in an exhibition restricted to women visitors provoked a gender-discrimination lawsuit. The paintings again prompted international headlines when the gallery rehung them in a women’s restroom to sidestep a legal ruling that said men could not be barred from viewing them. But the artworks at the center of the uproar were not really by Picasso or the other famed...