BRATISLAVA (SITA) - Bratislava can display again a unique collection of artistic artifacts. On July 16 an exhibition of works by genial Spanish artist Pablo Picasso will open in Dom Plynarov (House of Gas Men) at Drevena ulica in Bratislava. This unique collection is owned by a prominent European gallery company, the Miro Gallery. The exhibition will close on September 6. The Miro Gallery has its exhibition places in Berlin, Snina, and Prague. Gallery director Miro Smolák has considered opening a gallery in Bratislava also for a while. "One January day I met with representatives of the SPP (Slovak Gas Industry). One week later they called to tell me that we are going to build Miro Gallery in Bratislava. I think that it is a miracle, and thus after five months we can offer Bratislava inhabitants and visitors a kind of exhibition that has never been in Bratislava," Smolák said. The exhibition offers a collection of 50 originals of Picassos works including copper-engravings, lithographs, etchings, and aquatints. Portrait of a woman, one of the dominant themes of the maestro in the 50s and 60s, prevails. The most expensive masterpiece is valued at DEM 132,000. In the future the Miro Gallery wants introduce in Bratislava works that it exhibits in its galleries in other towns too. In Prague, the company is preparing a Salvator Dali exhibition. Bratislava will have the chance to see some of these pieces at the end of the year. Underway are exhibitions of works by Jurij Gorbacov, March Chagall, Andy Warhol, Slovak painter Mikuláš Galanda, and Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones. The gallery is also eager to exhibit works by the Czech pop singer Karel Gott and Slovak film director Juraj Jakubisko.