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The Radev Collection
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<p>The Radev Collection is a private art collection comprising more than 800 works by Impressionist and Modernist artists including Georges Braque, Picasso, Mogdigliani, Duncan Grant, Frances Hodgkins, Ben Nicholson, and Lucien Pissarro. It is named after the Bulgarian émigré Mattei Radev, a picture framer and art collector, who moved in the social circles of the <a href="/facts/Bloomsbury_group/tBSEUWg0">Bloomsbury group</a>. It originated with music critic <a href="/facts/Edward_Sackville-West,_5th_Baron_Sackville/2U9AvLjB">Edward Sackville-West, 5th Baron Sackville</a>, who began the collection in 1938. It was inherited by the artist and art dealer <a href="/facts/Eardley_Knollys/rCGUGYrU">Eardley Knollys</a> in 1965 and later by Radev in 1991. </p>