The National Gallery of Australia will return three millennia-old statues to Cambodia after concluding they were probably stolen from the Southeast Asian nation and illegally sold.
for the statues, Cheunboran Chanborey, the Cambodian ambassador to Australia, said the return was an “important step toward rectifying past injustices.”
The gallery, based in the capital, Canberra, said it began investigating the true provenance of the statues when Latchford began to be “convincingly implicated in the illegal trade of antiquities” about five years after it bought them. Phoeurng Sackona, the Cambodian minister of culture and fine arts, told The Post at that time that “we will never give up pursuing the return of our heritage.”Mitzevich said there had been “quite a transformation in the museum industry” about assessing the provenance of valuable cultural items from other countries.
“Our job is to focus on what’s in the best interest of the art object,” he said. “We are custodians of art objects, and ownership and possession are really a 19th-century trope of an art museum.”
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