Last-ditch bid to save Oslo building with Picasso murals


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Activists form a human chain during a demonstration on May 12 to try and save a government-building adorned with Picasso murals in Oslo, Norway. Photo: AFP

Damaged in right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik's July 2011 attacks, the 'Y Block', a government building complex named for its shape and completed in 1969, is due to be demolished any day now.

On its grey cement walls are two Picasso drawings, sandblasted by Norwegian artist Carl Nesjar, who collaborated with the Spaniard.

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