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Melina Mercouri confronting David Wilson in 1983


After delivering the Herbert Read Memorial Lecture at the ICA in 1983 Melina Mercouri came face to face with the Director of the British Museum, Dr. David Wilson.



Melina at the British Museum, May 1983
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