Botticelli Masterpiece: Virgin and Child Enthroned Faces UK Export Bar
A rare early Botticelli painting of the Virgin Mary, valued at £10.2 million, has been temporarily barred from export by the UK government, offering a last chance…
13 May 2025
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Rare Barbara Hepworth Sculpture Faces UK Export Ban
A sculpture by Dame Barbara Hepworth, one of Britain’s most lauded 20th-century artists, has been placed under a temporary export bar…
28 November 2024
Giacometti Bronze Chandelier Export Bar Placed By DCMS
An export bar has been placed on a £2.9 million chandelier by the Swiss/French artist Alberto Giacometti. This will allow time for a UK institution to acquire the work.
18 July 2023
Temporary Export Bar Placed On £10m JMW Turner Watercolour
Rebecca Pow, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts, Tourism and Heritage in Boris Johnson’s government has made her first move since his election by putting into place a temporary export bar on The Dark Rigi, the Lake of Lucerne by JMW Turner. It is hoped that the work can be saved for the nation.
3 August 2019
Salvador Dalí Mae West Lips Sofa Arts Minister Places Temporary Export Bar
John Glen the UK’s Arts Minister has placed a temporary export bar on an iconic Salvador Dalí and Edward James designed sofa known as ‘Mae West Lips’.
22 November 2017
Ed Vaizey Places Export Bar On Topographical Watercolour By Thomas Davies
The very first eyewitness representation of Niagara Falls, a 1762 topographical watercolour by Thomas Davies, is at risk of being… Read More
20 August 2015
Department Of Culture Extend Export Bar On Northampton’s Sekhemka Statue
The UK department for culture has taken the unprecedented step of extending a deadline over the export of the Egyptian… Read More
19 August 2015
David Cameron Urged To Save Sekhemka Statue From Export
Campaigners fighting the export of the Sekhemka statue – an historic work of art sold by Northampton Borough Council for… Read More
28 July 2015
Cézanne: Temporary Export Bar Placed On Rare Painting
An important Cézanne painting that has been on long-term loan to the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge for almost 30 years is… Read More
24 June 2015
Culture Minister Places Export Bar On Important Brueghel
British Culture Minister Ed Vaizey has placed a temporary export bar on the painting ‘The Garden of Eden with the… Read More
6 December 2014
Getty Museum Temporarily Prevented From Exporting British Rembrandt
A last ditch chance to raise the £16,500,000 is needed to keep a newly discovered Rembrandt painting in the UK…. Read More
4 August 2013