ABOVE: Weeping Woman, an etching by Picasso. Its acquisition was announced by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art yesterday.

Weeping Woman, an etching which is a sort of cousin to Picasso’s famous work Guernica, was acquired by the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art recently and unveiled yesterday. The Scotsman has been all over this story, noting that the etching is one of only 15 ever made and is worth roughly £1 million.

The piece was donated to the Gallery by the estate of Joanna Drew, an Edinburgh art doyenne and former director of the Hayward Gallery in London. Apparently, the British government opted to take the painting instead of the inheritance tax it normally levies, and passed it on to the Scottish National Galleries. Weeping Woman will join several other Picasso works already in the SNaGoMA (block that acronym!) collection.

LINK: The Scotsman > £1m etching by Picasso acquired by Scottish gallery