19-09-2016 14:01 via theguardian.com

Letters reveal English artist's unsporting attacks on Picasso

Correspondence of Sir Alfred Munnings, whose paintings of horses fetch millions, are up for auction in LondonDamning condemnations of Pablo Picasso and modernism have emerged from previously unpublished letters written by Sir Alfred Munnings, president of the Royal Academy of Arts in the 1940s.Munnings is regarded as the finest sporting artist of the 20th century. His 1921 painting, The Red Prince Mare, became the world’s most expensive sporting painting when it sold in 2004 for $7.84m (&p
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