Over 400 Picasso prints were donated to the Remai Art Gallery Tuesday morning, doubling the value of the gallery’s permanent collection.
The 405 works in the linocut collection, valued at $20 million, were donated by the Frank and Ellen Remai Foundation. The gallery’s chief curator, Lisa Baldissera, says the gallery is privileged to receive the collection.
“The editioned prints, experimental proofs, and working states comprise what is the largest, and arguably the finest, collection of Picasso linocuts in the world.”
In a news release, Ellen Remai says she donated the collection to put the Remai Art Gallery on an “international stage.”
Picasso made these prints between 1951 and 1966. There will be a gallery space on the third floor dedicated to housing the collection called The Picasso Salon: International Modern Art.
