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Tate's art collection boosted by 300 gifts

By Peter Aspden, Arts Correspondent

Published: September 4 2008 03:00 | Last updated: September 4 2008 03:00

A record number of almost 500 art works, worth more than £63m, were acquired by the Tate galleries over the year 2007-08.

More than 300 of them were gifts from collectors and artists and the gallery spent less than £1.5m on new works.

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