found significant evidence that at least four objects in the Alsdorf collection, all from Nepal, were looted. Incomplete provenance information was identified for 24 artworks from the collection, according to the investigation, more than any other collection at the museum.
In a statement to the Tribune, an Art Institute spokesperson said the museum is “continuously engaged in provenance research and is responsive to repatriation requests.” Of the four contested Nepali artworks, the Art Institute’s catalog included publicly available provenance information for one of them: a 17th-centurybearing a dedication to Taleju, a patron goddess for Hindus in Kathmandu Valley. The other three bear a placeholder noting that “object information is a work in progress and may be updated as new research findings emerge.”
“You cannot see anything of the goddess’s, but you can see this necklace so openly displayed. It was like a temple, but it was not a temple. It was very distressing,” Baniya says. “I didn’t know it was stolen — I hadn’t thought about that yet. But when I saw it, it just didn’t feel right.”, where it quickly gained traction via Nepali activists, press and the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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