Turkey demands from the Getty Museum 10 artifacts
Four marble statues, bronze head of young men and a few other items, according to Turkish authorities, were in Los Angeles Getty Museum illegally
Chasing Aphrodite website published a list of items from the collections of the Getty Museum, which requires Turkey to return. Earlier, Turkish authorities have treated with such requirements to the museum at Harvard University Damberton-Oaks, Metropolitan Museum and the Cleveland Museum. As long as American museums would not be given to them illegally trapped objects, Turkey refuses to provide their own works of art for temporary exhibitions in the United States.
Getty Museum has refused to provide information about its controversial exhibits, so Web Chasing Aphrodite procured it from the Turkish authorities. Thanks to the 2006 in the Getty's new policy of procurement, the museum is obliged to provide information about the provenance of works from his collection. So something about how notwithstanding that the exhibits were in the collection of the Los Angeles museum, it is already known.
 statue of the muse. 200 AD. Oe. Flint, Turkey Source: | Source: |
most significant works claimed by Turkey, is a four marble muse exhibited at the Getty Villa. All four of the statue, according to the records of the Getty come from Flint in Turkey and were originally purchased by an art dealer Elie Borowski (Elie Borowski) until 1968.
Borowski, who died in 2003, was associated with the black market antiquities. His name appears in the memoirs of a disgraced dealer Robert Hecht (Robert Hecht) - they Borowski is designated as a client of the criminal art dealer Giacomo Medici (Giacomo Medici); In addition, the name Borowski appears in the scheme of black market Antiquities - this document was discovered by Italian police in 2001. Former Getty antiquities curator Marion True (Marion True) told Italian authorities that Borowski, moreover, was a client of Gianfranco Bekkin (Gianfranco Becchina) - Sicilian art dealer, who is currently under investigation in Italy.
Some of the artifacts, which requires the return of Turkey, came to the museum through a dealer Kutulakisa Nicolas (Nicolas Koutoulakis), former owner of the Parisian gallery Segredakis. Name Kutulakisa also found in the aforementioned scheme of the black market, and last year the Getty Museum returned to Greece a fragment of a tombstone, once purchased from this dealer. For subjects Kutulakisa who now wants to return to Turkey include: a bronze male head, a bronze bust and a bronze foot.
| Source: |  Eagle. I - III centuries. Mr. Oe. Bronze Source: |
Two controversial facility - a bronze bust of a Roman eagle and the Emperor Lucius Verus - were in Getty Museum through the auction house, French & Company and the London gallery Spink & Son.
Getty Representative Ron Hartwig (Ron Hartwig) refused to complete negotiations with the Turkish authorities to give the press comments.
Prepared by Mary Onuchina, AI
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