Perhaps the finest collection of Pablo Picasso ceramics in private hands, acquired on annual holidays over five decades by the late actor and director Sir Richard Attenborough, is to be sold at auction.
He said his father always expected the ceramics to be sold to help provide for children, grandchildren and great grandchildren.
The ceramics were bought on family holidays to the south of France, a regular trip remembered fondly by Attenborough’s son, the theatre director Michael Attenborough.
“My mother was duly summoned and Picasso just made eyes at her, it was outrageous, as he scribbled his autograph.