A MANET painting has been saved for the nation after a £7.83m fundraising campaign.
THE Ashmolean Museum raised the cash to save Manet ’s Portrait of Mademoiselle Claus.
An export ban stopping the Impressionist masterpiece going abroad ended yesterday.
The painting had already been sold to a foreign buyer for £28.35m. But under a private treaty sale, with tax remission, approved public bodies are able to secure the painting at a fraction of its real cost.
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