British Museum Acquires Important Series of Picasso Prints

September 26th, 2016

The British Museum has made a landmark purchase of a group of mint-condition prints by Pablo Picasso, a selection that fills in a gap in the museum’s collection of the artist’s work in the medium.  “This is the last important gap to be filled in the British Museum’s representation of Picasso’s print work,” says Stephen Coppell, curator of the museum’s modern prints and drawings collection. “It is very important that we were able to acquire this work. It is one of the greatest achievements in graphic art.” Read more at The Guardian