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Oct 29 2007 12:00am EDT

A Grocer's Gift

Market darlings Gaugin and Bacon headed to a museum instead of the auction block? Shocking, but true.

Simon Sainsbury of the Sainsbury supermarket family left 18 paintings to Britain's Tate and National Gallery when he died last year, the museums announced today.

The gift includes works by Lucian Freud, Monet, and Gainsborough, as well.

Valued at up to £100 million, it's being called "one of the most significant bequests of paintings ever made to the nation."

Who would've thought groceries could buy all that art?

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