Spanish Ministry of Culture Buys Cheesemaker’s 120,000 Work Collection of Avant-Garde Art
about 26 months ago (03/17/2022)
Spain Buys Cheesemaker’s 120,000 Piece Collection of Avant-Garde Art – ARTnews.com Skip to main content By Shanti Escalante-De Mattei Plus Icon Shanti Escalante-De Mattei View All March 17, 2022 1:00pm The collector, José María Lafuente Europa Press via AP The Spanish Ministry of Culture confirmed today that it would purchase the impressive archive of avant-garde art collected by prominent Spanish businessman José María Lafuente, reported El País . “It is a private file with a public vocation,” Lafuente told El País . “And the time has come for the transfer to the hands of the State.