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- 1985-1988 (Creation)
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1 folder
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Material relating to the 56 Group Wales's exhibition tour of 1986-1987 held at the Mirbachov Palace in Bratislava, the Dům Umění in Brno, the Galerie Umění in Karlovy Vary and the Eastern Slovakia Gallery in Košice in what was then Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic and Slovakia), including correspondence between Group secretary Mary Griffiths and representatives of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Culture in Bratislava (incorporating notes of meeting with Czechoslovak Deputy Minister of Culture), the British Embassy and British Council, Dr Silvia Ilečková of the Slovak National Gallery, and Visiting Arts, London; listed schedule of activities and events during visit to Czechoslovakia of the Contemporary Art Society for Wales, with reports of visit by Group chairman Arthur Giardelli; miscellaneous official papers; and memoranda by Mary Griffiths. Some folios annotated by Mary Griffiths.