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Article: Looking for the bigger picture; Director Charles Saumarez Smith is not ready to lose the National Gallery's Raphael and today launches an appeal.
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- November 14, 2002
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Byline: FIONA MADDOCKS
NEVER in his wildest imaginings could Charles Saumarez Smith have foreseen the choppy waters he would find himself in when he took over as director of the National Gallery in July. Museums and galleries are hot news. In the past two weeks he has announced a pound sterling21 million scheme for the redevelopment of the gallery's public spaces, had a tussle with a testy descendant of a generous benefactor, Ludwig Mond, and watched while one of the collection's treasured loans, Raphael's Madonna of the Pinks, is virtually whisked from under his nose to be sold to the Getty Museum in Los Angeles, subject to export licence.
Then, last ...