Roving art show brings Picasso to Cubans [Are sure she is a security guard for a Picasso?]

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A security guard stands next to Pablo Picasso's, "Faunne et Flore d' Antibes," on exhibit at the Provincial Museum in Pinar del Rio, Cuba, Tuesday Sept. 27, 2011. 

The Picasso is from a 120-piece collection donated by U.S. philanthropist Gilbert Brownstone and include works from Joan Miro, Andy Warhol and Marcel Duchamp. The pieces recently went on display in the western city of Pinar del Rio, known more for tobacco farms than art museums. The tour ends this week and the art returns to its permanent home in Havana. (AP Photo/ Franklin Reyes) (Franklin Reyes)

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(AP)  PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba — A traveling exhibition of art donated by a U.S. philanthropist is giving Cubans outside the capital a rare chance to see works from masters such as Pablo Picasso and Andy Warhol that would normally hang in world-class galleries instead of sleepy provincial cities.

Selections from the 120-piece collection have already toured Camaguey and Holguin in the island's far-flung east and recently went on display in the western city of Pinar del Rio, known more for tobacco farms than art museums.

More than a dozen works by Joan Miro, Marcel Duchamp, Camille Pissarro, Georges Rouault, Roy Lichtenstein and others went up in the glassed lobby of a local TV station, watched over by just a few police and guards and prompting curious passers-by to pop in to see what all the fuss was about.

The showcase of the exhibit was a few blocks up the street at the Provincial Museum: 12 lithographs created by Picasso in a 1959 series called "Faunes et Flore d'Antibes," depicting grinning, horned satyrs with flowers and playing flutes.