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  • Picasso 'stole the work of African artists'

    03/12/2006 10:02:22 AM PST · by wagglebee · 84 replies · 1,621+ views
    UK Telegraph ^ | 3/12/06 | Stephen Bevan
    He was one of the greatest artists of the 20th century and also one of the most controversial. And now, 33 years after his death, the first significant exhibition of Pablo Picasso's work in South Africa has provoked a furious row after a senior government official accused him of stealing the work of African artists to boost his "flagging talent". The Picasso and Africa exhibition, which has been drawing capacity crowds at Johannesburg's Standard Bank Gallery, contains 84 original works by Picasso along with 29 African sculptures similar to those in the artist's own collection, and is described as an...