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Article: Museum buys Picasso painting for pounds 1.4m-plus; Experts say the acquisition of 1948 still life is 'money well spent'.(News; Front Page)
- Article from:
- South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- November 10, 2009
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Byline: Steffan Rhys
CARDIFF is to house Wales' first public display of an oil painting by one of history's greatest artists.
Pablo Picasso's NatureMorte Au Poron, or Still Life with Poron, has spent several years in a private collection but from today will go on display at the National Museum ofWales.
Although painted after World War II, it references Picasso's single most important innovation: the development of Cubism ...