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Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst and Joseph Beuys.

The collection also would be available to other galleries across Scotland and the UK in a plan aimed at bringing contemporary art to a wider, younger audience.

Tate director Nicholas Serota said the collection will probably cost more than $18 million.

Last year dOffay, a leading art dealer for 40 years before he closed his London gallery in 2001, said publicly he 100 percent wanted his collection to go to Scotland. There was talk of a new gallery in Edinburgh to house it, with an industrial building in Leith named as a possible site.

The Scotsman: Scotland to share in a treasure trove of art

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