By Tobias Carroll This month has seen a consequential election in the Philippines — one which saw the son of a former head of state elected to the nation’s highest office. There’s been a lot of analysis written about the election and what it says about the state of the nation in question. Of particular interest to art historians is one particular tangent that’s emerged from reports covering the election — and how it relates to a painting by Pablo Picasso that was believed lost for many years. As The Art Newspaper reports, this ties back in to the period where Ferdinand Marcos was in power in t…