Chennai: Continuing to repatriate stolen idols, the Australian National Gallery on Wednesday announced that it would return 14 artwork from the Asian art collection to the Indian government.
These artworks include 13 objects that are connected to the Kapoor Subhash art dealer through the ‘past’ art ‘gallery and one, bronze (Saint Saint Saint) from Tamil Nadu temple, obtained from William Wolff’s art dealer, said a official release.
Works include six bronze statues or stones, standard brass procession, painted scroll and six photos.
Tamil Nadu will regain two bronzes Chola-era 12th century – Saint Saint Children, stolen from the Temple of Dignavaram in Lirci in Tamil Nadu, and children dancing sawandar.
Other artworks belonging to Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Rajasthan and above.
The National Gallery has introduced a new assistant assistant framework that considers the available evidence of the legal and ethical aspects of a work of art history.
If, on the probability balance, it is considered to be possible that an item is stolen, excavated illegally, exported not contrary to foreign state law, or unethnicized, the national gallery will take steps to repatriate, said Gallery.