[1] Described as ‘a brilliant administrator’,[5] Lasko, when he was at UEA, secured the gift of the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts when he persuaded Sir Robert and Lady Lisa Sainsbury that it was a perfect place to house their collection of artworks and ethnographic objects.
[1] The main task that Blunt left was to find a new permanent home for the institute, which, after a few twists and turns, Lasko did by starting negotiations with the Secretary of State and the Treasury to move the Courtald to Somerset House in the north wing facing the Strand.
It was a move, completed in 1989, not overseen by Lasko as, after securing the majority of the funding, he retired in 1985 citing ill health.
[7] Following his retirement from the Courtauld he devoted much of his time to the "Corpus Of Romanesque Sculpture In Great Britain And Northern Ireland", a project he took over from George Zarnecki, and a book on German Expressionist art,[1] which was published after his death.
A festschrift in his honour, Studies in Medieval Art and Architecture : presented to Peter Lasko, was published in 1994.