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Spanish State to Buy the José María Lafuente Collection

Published on , by La Gazette Drouot

Spain will buy the Archivo Lafuente, the 20,000-piece collection of avant-garde objects and artworks amassed by José María Lafuente, a who made his fortune selling mozzarella and other cheeses to a chain of Spanish grocery stores, since the 1990s. In Lafuente stated: “It is a private archive with a public vocation,”