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British Museum Gets £1m Suite of Etchings

November 29, 2011 by Marion Maneker

The Evening Standard details the £1m gift of Picasso’s etchings made to the British Museum:

Hamish Parker, a director of Mondrian Investment Partners, made the generous gesture after discovering that owning a complete 100-piece set of the works was a dream of museum curator Stephen Coppel. […] It has been purchased from heirs of Henri Petiet, a dealer who bought them from the estate of art dealer and print publisher Ambroise Vollard who commissioned them.

When the so-called “Vollard Suite” goes on show at the museum next summer, it will be the first time a complete set will have been shown in Britain for half a century. […] Asked how difficult it was effectively to give them away, he said: “It gives me more pleasure that I was buying them for the British Museum than if I was buying them for myself.”

Businessman’s £1m gift of Picasso etchings (Evening Standard)

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