NGV relaxed about looted Nazi art (National Gallery of Victoria)

NGV relaxed about looted Nazi art

Date: Tuesday, 13 February 2007
Arts writer Ashley Crawford writes:
The National Gallery of Victoria seems unruffled in the wake of demands for the return of an artwork in its collection pilfered by the Nazis during World War II.

The painting, Lady with a Fan, by the Dutch artist Gerard ter Borch, is valued between $100,000 and $1 million. It is claimed that the painting was stolen from the Emden family in the 1930s.
But the acting director of the NGV, Tony Ellwood, seems philosophical about the claim.

“There are artworks in the collection where we lack the full provenance and where the identity of the original owner is lacking. But we have always been fully transparent about that. It’s all on our website.”

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