Hemish Parker made this gift in memory of his father, who died a year ago

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One of the engravings of "The Loop Vollard»
Source: thisislondon.co.uk

Hemish Parker (Hamish Parker), Director of Mondrian Investment Partners, has made a noble deed, the newspaper writes London Evening Standard. Businesswoman of the City of London acquired the cycle of engravings by Pablo Picasso (Pablo Picasso) cost a million pounds and in memory of his father brought him a gift to the British Museum (British Museum). A gift made businessman after he learned that to get a set of one hundred engravings - an old dream of the museum curator Stephen Coppel (Stephen Coppel). A series of engravings by Picasso, donated to the museum by Parker, is considered the most important one created by one of the greatest artists of the twentieth century.

Business acquired from the heirs of Henry prints Petit (Henri Petiet), a dealer who bought the work at the customer Series - Marshal Ambroise Vollard and publisher (Ambroise Vollard).

so-called "cycle of Vollard" will exhibit at the museum next summer: the first time in fifty years it will show in the UK as a whole. In the engravings reflected many favorite classic stories by Picasso, for example, the myths of the Minotaur and Pygmalion.
A spokesman for the British Museum said that Mr. Parker has for several years a friend of the department of drawings and engravings of the museum. At the party, hosted for Friends of the Museum, he saw in one of the halls of the famous series of engravings - only, the former at the time of collection agencies. In the plate accompanying the work, the curator noted that Museum has long been dreaming of a full set of prints in this series. The businessman noted for his signature, and after a while a dream come true museum. "It was very sudden" - shared the spokesman of the British Museum.

The works were purchased by the Foundation Parker Hamish (Hamish Parker Charitable Trust) in memory of his father a businessman, Major Horace Parker (Major Horace Parker), who died last year. Pyatidesyatidvuhletny giver said that much of it inspired by the late film critic Alexander Walker Standard (Alexander Walker), who presented to the British Museum is the number of modernist prints. Parker admitted: "I got great pleasure from the fact that buying them [engraving] is for the British Museum, but not for himself».

Prepared by Mary Estrova, AI

Source: artinvestment.ru