In June 1981, Amsterdam’s College of Burgomaster and Aldermen decided that the city’s Stedelijk Museum should be allowed to buy Picasso’s late Nude in front of a garden, which according to the date inscribed on the back by the artist was completed in five days, from 29 August to 2 September 1956.
![](https://simiolus.nl/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/39-4-06-van-adrichem.jpg)