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Nigeria, U.S. gallery row over stolen 1897 Benin artefacts
THE donation of 32 works of Benin Art - 28 Bronze and six Ivories - looted during the Benin Massacre of 1897 by one of the heirs of the beneficiary of the expedition, Mr. Robert Owen Lehman, to the Museum of Fine Art Boston U.S.A, may have sparked up diplomatic row between Nigeria and the United
Travelling Exhibition as Alternative to Restitution? Comments on Suggestion by Director of the British Museum--DR. KWAME OPOKU
The Director of the British Museum has indeed a fertile mind that never tires of inventing new defences for the retention of looted artefacts of others in the major museums. Once it became clear that the infamous Declaration on the Importance and Value of Universal Museums. (2002) and its
Boston Museum opens dialogue over looted Benin artefacts
When the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston received a major collection of West African art from New York collector Robert Lehman there was a major ripple felt across the Pan African world.
Lehman, whose great-grandfather founded the defunct investment firm Lehman …
PHOTOS OF SOME OF OUR LOOTED ARTS THAT Robert Lehman DONATED TO THE BOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS.
Photos of 9 of the 32 pieces of the Benin looted artifacts recently donated to the Museum of Fine Arts in BOSTON by Robert Lehman.
These are STOLEN goods that belongs to the people of BENIN CITY. It is immoral and illegal for the Museum to accept them as …
After Sotheby's controversial sales, grandson of another benefiary discloses over thirty of 1897 looted Benin art pieces
About two years after Sotheby’s was forced to cancel a proposed sales of some 15th century looted art pieces of Benin origin, another heir of one of the beneficiaries of the 1897 expedition has surfaced as 32 works from the ancient West African city have been …
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