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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9025

13 September 2005
Contents Publication in full By article 30 / 38
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/court of justice
Picasso family slammed for turning spanish artist into 'merchandising'

Luxembourg, 12/09/2005 (Agence Europe) - Advocate General Damaso Ruiz-Jarabo Colomer has expressed sadness at the way the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso, the most striking myth of the twentieth century, had been reduced to 'merchandising'. He slammed the insatiable merchandising and publicity machine that seizes control of artists. His comments were directed at Picasso's heirs who have control of the 'Picasso' trademark and leased it to car manufacturer Citroen as the name of one of its...

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