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National Gallery of Australia to return 14 artworks worth $3m to India

Most of the works, including stone and bronze sculptures, were bought from a US gallery run by alleged antiquities smuggler Subhash Kapoor

The National Gallery of Australia will remove 14 works from its Asian art collection and return them to the Indian government.

Worth a combined $3m, 13 of the objects were purchased between 2002 and 2010 from Art of the Past, the now-infamous New York gallery run by the dealer and alleged antiquities smuggler Subhash Kapoor. And one came from the late New York art dealer William Wolff in 1989.

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from Culture | The Guardian https://ift.tt/3f9A6Ya

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