Nigeria’s sacred ‘stolen’ statues fetch $240k in Paris, rile Black Lives Matter campaigners – art and culture https://ift.tt/eA8V8J

A pair of sacred statues that a Nigerian museum commission and protesters claimed were looted during the country’s 1960s civil war has fetched 212,500 euros (USD 239,000) at auction in Paris. The Igbo statues were sold on Monday by the Christie’s auction house, which defended the sale and said the artworks were legitimately acquired. A […]

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