What is ‘looted’ art – and are the experts looking in the wrong places?

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🎨 So much about the historical transactions involving artworks can be unclear. When tracing an object’s heritage back to its source, at what point do we stop?

In Daphne Du Maurier’s short story Not After Midnight , a tourist in Crete unwittingly stumbles across a couple stealing ancient artefacts from a shipwreck. To buy his silence, they leave him a piece of the stolen treasure. Du Maurier’s protagonist is torn – should he keep it? – but he eventually tries to return the antique by whatever means possible, acutely aware that he isn’t its rightful owner.

 

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