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Museum news in Britain.(Report from Europe)(Brief Article)
Three developments merit noting this month. The first is the opening on June 20 of a gallery of early twentieth-century art in the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at Oxford University. The museum has extensive holdings of works by Picasso, Braque, Matisse, Moore, Epstein, and Frink that can now be shown together in the first new gallery devoted to European art to be created at the Ashmolean in sixty years.
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