RUSSIAN TREASURES
FOR SALE IN GERMANY
(United Press Association—By Electric’ Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at 9. a.m.) BERLIN, Oct. 30. The announcement of the sale of five hundred Soviet art treasures at Berlin on 6th: November, including the famous Houdon statutes, and well-known Dutch and Italian pictures, has aroused a sharp controversy. The treasures are from the Hermitage and other Leningrad Palaces. Russian princesses protest against the sale of their personal property under the plea that the involution justified the Soviet in confiscating property on behalf of the Russian people, and representatives of princely families who recognise the .pictures and statues in the sale catalogue have initiated a. lawsuit to decide the legality. They warn the purchasers that the validity of the biddings is liable to investigation in German courts. If the Berlin sale is successful it is likely to be the forerunner of numerous similar disposals of Russian treasures.
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Hokitika Guardian, 31 October 1928, Page 5
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