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Washington National Gallery of Art to return bronze rooster from Benin looted in Nigeria
The National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC will return to Nigeria a bronze rooster from Benin from its collection, making it the last Western institution to agree to repatriate works of art stolen from the royal palace in Benin by invading troops British in 1897.
The birddates from the mid-18th century and entered the museum’s collection in 1955 by aNew York gallery owned by dealer JJ Klejman. The object is the only bronze stolen from Benin in the collection of the NGA, according to the Art journal.
“The National Gallery looks forward to working with relevant parties in Nigeria, including the Federal Government of Nigeria, to transfer ownership and possession of this object on a mutually acceptable schedule and terms,” said a spokesperson for the NGA.
The object is similar to another roosterreturned to Nigeria by Jesus College at Cambridge University in October. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which returned three other objects in Nigeria last week,also has one of the rooster sculptures, known asOkukor, which were placed on ancestral altars to honor the queen mothers of Benin.
Klejman, the New York dealer who passed the work on to the NGA, was born in Poland and emigrated to the United States, where he and his wife opened a gallery on Madison Avenue in 1950. According to the late director’s memoir from Met Thomas Hoving, Klejman was a well-connected smuggler-merchant who traded in antiques from questionable origins.
Other institutions, including the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, which is also in Washington, are now working to identify looted works of art from their collection and begin the repatriation process.
Last month, the Smithsonian Museum removed 10 of its 16 Beninese bronzes from the exhibition as a sign of its intentions.
In another sign of the changing tides regarding restitution, the German government and the Nigerian National Commission on Museums and Monuments announced their intention earlier this year to transfer more than 1,000 bronzes from German museums to Nigeria.
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