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This will provide a last chance to raise the money to keep the painting in the United Kingdom.聽

皇冠体育app Minister鈥檚 ruling follows a recommendation by the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest, administered by . 皇冠体育app Committee recommended that the export decision be deferred on the grounds that the painting was so closely connected with our history and national life that its departure would be a misfortune; that it was of outstanding aesthetic importance; and that it was of outstanding significance for the study of Picasso鈥檚 early works and artistic development, and British collecting of European avant-garde in the first decades of the 20th century.

皇冠体育app painting dates from the autumn of 1901. It is a key work within the development of Picasso鈥檚 art, and marks a transition into the artist鈥檚 celebrated Blue Period - a period of sombre works painted almost solely in shades of blue and blue-green, sparingly warmed by colour. Around this time, Picasso moved away from the broadly Impressionistic style he had been practising, simplifying his compositions and flattening the perspective. 皇冠体育app painting depicts an image of a young child holding a dove closely next to a multi-coloured ball, standing in front of a subdued background.

Child with a Dove is one of the earliest and most important works by Picasso to enter a British collection. 皇冠体育appre are just five early oil paintings by Picasso in UK public permanent collections and Child with a Dove fills an important gap between Picasso鈥檚 more derivative Impressionistic works and the slightly later Blue Period works.

Child with a Dove was acquired in 1924 by Mrs R. A. Workman, who then sold the painting several years later to Samuel Courtauld, one of the most important art collectors in Britain and co-founder of the Courtauld Institute of Art. On his death in 1947 Samuel Courtauld bequeathed the painting to Lady Aberconway.

In 1974 the painting was placed on long-term loan to the National Gallery where it remained on permanent display until 2010. This iconic and hugely popular painting has thus been at the centre of Britain鈥檚 national collection for almost forty years, where it has been admired by tens of millions of visitors in one of the most popular art galleries in the UK.

Aidan Weston-Lewis, Reviewing Committee member, said:

鈥淐hild with a Dove is a much-loved painting whose iconic status; together with its long history in British collections - latterly on loan to public galleries - make it of outstanding importance to our national heritage.鈥�

皇冠体育app decision on the export licence application for the painting will be deferred for a period ending on 16 December 2012 inclusive. This period may be extended until 16 June 2013 inclusive if a serious intention to raise funds is expressed with a view to making an offer to purchase the painting at the recommended price of 拢50,000,000.

Offers from public bodies for less than the recommended price through the private treaty sale arrangements, where appropriate, may also be considered by Mr Vaizey. Such purchases frequently offer substantial financial benefit to both parties through the sharing of tax advantages.

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Notes to Editors

1. Anyone interested in making an offer to purchase the painting should contact:

皇冠体育app Secretary
皇冠体育app Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest
Arts Council England
Great Peter Street
London
SW1P 3NQ
Tel: 020 7973 5259

1. Anyone interested in making a matching offer and who requires further information about the painting from the Champion should contact 皇冠体育app Secretary to the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest at the above address.

2. For enquiries on the operation of and casework arising from the work of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest (RCEWA) please contact the Enquiries team of [email protected] or 0845 300 6200

3. 皇冠体育app details of the painting are:

Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Child with a Dove, 1901
oil on canvas
signed centre left 鈥楶icasso鈥�
73 x 54cm

Provenance:

Paul Rosenberg, Paris
Alexander Reid Gallery, Glasgow, 1924聽
Purchased from the above by Mrs R. A. Workman, 1924
Purchased from the above, by Samuel Courtauld, 1928
Bequeathed by the above to Lady Aberconway, 1947
By descent,
On loan to the National Gallery, London, from 1974

1. 皇冠体育app Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art and Objects of Cultural Interest is an independent body, serviced by Arts Council England, which advises the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport on whether a cultural object, intended for export, is of national importance under specified criteria. Where the Committee finds that an object meets one or more of the criteria, it will normally recommend that the decision on the export licence application should be deferred for a specified period. An offer may then be made from within the United Kingdom at or above the fair matching price.

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