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National Gallery of Australia to return 14 looted artworks to India
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The National Gallery of Australia will remove 14 works from its Asian art collection and return them to the Indian government.
Worth a combined $3 million, 13 of the objects were purchased between 2002 and 2010 from Art of the Past, the now-infamous New York gallery run by disgraced antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor. And one came from the late New York art dealer William Wolff in 1989.
They comprise six stone or bronze sculptures, most dating back to the 11th or 12th century, as well as a brass processional standard, or alam , from Hyderabad dated 1851. There is a painted invitation scroll, or vijnaptipatra, from Rajasthan dated approximately 1835, and six photographs.
The NGA director, Nick Mitzevich, confirmed the gallery had in-principle agreement from the Indian government through the Indian high commission that they welcomed and would receive the works.
“The physical handover will be negotiated over the next couple of months, giving consideration to Covid and the ability to travel, as to whether it’s realistic to have it in India or Canberra,” he said.
“It’s unfortunate, and the institution is sorry for this development. We are doing all we can to avoid any future missteps of this kind,” Mitzevich said in the Australian. “It’s a historic issue … The NGA was part of an international fraud campaign that affected more than a dozen of the world’s leading institutions.”
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