The art dealer, the £10m bronze and the Holocaust
Countless historic artefacts were looted from around the world during the colonial era and taken to Europe but there is now a growing campaign to return them. Among the most famous are the Benin Bronzes seized from modern-day Nigeria. Barnaby Phillips finds out about one family s dilemma.
One morning in April 2016, a woman walked into Barclays Bank on London s exclusive Park Lane, to retrieve a mysterious object that had been locked in the vaults for 63 years.
Attendants ushered her downstairs. Three men waited upstairs, perched anxiously on an uncomfortable sofa, watching customers go about their business.
The art dealer, the £10m Benin Bronze and the Holocaust
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