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Article: National Museum's Picasso painting -costing pounds 1.4m-goes on show today; Still life 'sets work by Welsh artists in an international context'.(News)
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- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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Byline: Steffan Rhys
THE first oil painting by the 20th century's most influential artist to enter a public collection in Wales will go on display today.
Pablo Picasso's Nature Morte Au Poron, or Still Life with Poron, has spent several years in a private collection but has been acquired by the National Museum ofWales for more than pounds 1.4m.
Although painted after the SecondWorld War, it references Picasso's single most important innovation: the development of cubism in the first decade of the 20th century.
The museum said the painting ...