Pounds 1billion Needed to Save the Finest Works of Art in Britain

Evening Standard - London › January 24, 2007

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THE Government is being urged to set up a Pounds 1 billion emergency art fund to ensure that 25 of Britain's most prestigious paintings are not sold abroad.

Campaigners led by former arts minister Lord Howarth have called for a list of artworks deemed invaluable to the nation to be drawn up so they may be saved if they are put on the market.

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Pounds 1billion Needed to Save the Finest Works of Art in Britain

Lord Howarth says a version of the Paramount List, used by previous governments, should be reintroduced. The inventory would guarantee obje...

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