UAE secretly bought the masterpieces of world art

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UAE secretly bought the masterpieces of world art
In one of the hotels in the capital of the United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi opened an exhibition of paintings acquired secretly commissioned by government from private owners in Europe, reports The Telegraph.
Among the exhibited works are paintings Edurda Manet, Paul Cezanne, Bartolome Murillo, Giovanni Bellini, Jean Ingres, Piet Mondrian. Pictures Mane "Gypsy" and "Still Life with a bag and garlic," presented at the exposition, long considered lost.
It is believed members art market, all of these acquisitions were made by representatives of the UAE in the past few months through private transactions with the organizers of auctions and the owners of the paintings.
Soon exhibition will conclude its work and the paintings will go into storage until 2013 - while on Saadiyat island near Abu Dhabi will not open an international branch of the Louvre.
Meanwhile, the head of the United Arab Emirates Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahyan (Khalifa bin Zayed al-Nahya) intends to build in Abu Dhabi, three more exhibition complex - Gallery Guggenheim project, Frank Gehry, the National Museum of the project by Norman Foster and the Arts Center project Zaha Hadid.
(Lenta.ru)