HAVANA – A Swiss art collector has donated nine works by artists ranging from Pablo Picasso to Camille Pissarro to Cuba’s National Museum of Fine Arts in Havana, Cuban media has reported.
Gilbert Brownstone plans to donate 120 works of art to Cuba and has dedicated the donation to five Cuban agents imprisoned in the US for their role in the 1996 shooting down of two aircraft piloted by anti-Castro Cuban exiles, Communist Party newspaper Granma said.
Cuban officials awarded him the Medal of Friendship on Monday. Thanks to Gilbert, we are acquiring essential names of the vanguard that were not included in our patrimony, culture minister Abel Prieto said.
The nine works are by artists including Picasso, Pissarro, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miró, Roy Lichtenstein and André Masson, Granma said. – (Reuters)