Pablo Picasso 'forgotten' Ceramics On Display In Tashkent

Picasso's Forgotten Ceramics On Display In Uzbekistan
A visitor looks Picasso's Plates at the exhibition 'Picasso, La Joie de Vivre, 1945-1948' at Palazzo Grassi in Venice 09 November 2006. The exhibition is dedicated to a four year period in Picasso's life, in the immediate postwar. Some 200 of Picasso's works are on display, including paintings, drawings, marble incisions, sculptures, and pottery. Numerous works belonging to private and public collections and 120 masterpieces from The Picasso Museum collection in Antibes. The exhibition will be open to the public from 11 November 2006 to 11 March 2007. AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)
A visitor looks Picasso's Plates at the exhibition 'Picasso, La Joie de Vivre, 1945-1948' at Palazzo Grassi in Venice 09 November 2006. The exhibition is dedicated to a four year period in Picasso's life, in the immediate postwar. Some 200 of Picasso's works are on display, including paintings, drawings, marble incisions, sculptures, and pottery. Numerous works belonging to private and public collections and 120 masterpieces from The Picasso Museum collection in Antibes. The exhibition will be open to the public from 11 November 2006 to 11 March 2007. AFP PHOTO / ALBERTO PIZZOLI (Photo credit should read ALBERTO PIZZOLI/AFP/Getty Images)

A collection of "forgotten" ceramics made by the world famous artist Picasso and not seen in public for 40 years has gone on display in Uzbekistan.

Staff at Tashkent's State Arts Museum say the 12 items are masterpieces.

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