WHOSE TREASURES?
Pictures and Statues to be Sold RUSSIAN PRINCES OBJECT (United, P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. BERLIN, Tuesday. The announcement o£ the sale of 500 Soviet art treasures in Berlin on November 6, including the famous Houdon statues and well-known Dutch and Italian pictures, has aroused sharp controversy. The treasures are from the Hermitage and other Leningrad palaces. Russian princes protest against the disposal of their personal property, under the plea that the Revolution justified the Soviet in confiscating their property, but only on behalf of the Russian people. Representatives of princely families who recognise the pictures and statues in the sale catalogue have initiated a lawsuit to decide the legality of the sale and warn purchasers that the validity of their biddings is liable to investigation by German Courts. If successful, the Berlin sale is likely to be the forerunner of numerous similar disposals of Russian treasures.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 499, 31 October 1928, Page 9
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155WHOSE TREASURES? Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 499, 31 October 1928, Page 9
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