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An exhibition of 120 works by 20 artists drawn from the British Council collection and first shown in Mexico under the title Grabados de Artistas Británicos Neuvas Tendenciasas part of the XIX Olimpiada Festival Internacional de las Artes.

The exhibition subsequently toured as either British Artists’ Prints of the Sixties, Recent Prints by some British Painters and Sculptors or Artistas Gráficos Británicos de la Década dos 60. A catalogue, with an introduction by Christopher Finch and biographical notes on the artists, was published in various editions:

In Spanish only by the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico. No ISBN
In typescript form by the British Council, London
By Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi
In Japanese, with a foreword by the Director of the National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto and a message from the British Council Representative, Japan. No ISBN
Bi-lingual (Portuguese/Spanish) by the British Council, London. No ISBN
In leaflet form, Spanish only, by the Museo de Arte Italiano, Peri
In Spanish by the Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid. No ISBN
In Portuguese by the Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon. No ISBN