Cambodian officials say the Met owns at least 33 looted artworks linked to the late, disgraced art dealer Douglas Latchford:
Cambodian Officials Say the Met Owns at Least 33 Looted Artworks Linked to the Late, Disgraced Art Dealer Douglas Latchford
A former criminal told Cambodian officials he was personally involved in taking the artworks that ended up at the museum.A trio of antique sculptures from the collection of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art that Cambodia says are looted. Standing Female Deity, probably Uma . Standing Four-Armed Vishnu . Standing Eight-Armed Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of Infinite Compassion . Photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Toek Tik, who died last year, told authorities that he personally stole the 33 works out of Cambodia during a 20-year run as a smuggler. He told officials that many of those works passed through the hands of the late Douglas Latchford, a once-respected Southeast Asian antiquities dealer who has since been identified as a large-scale smuggler responsible for placing looted art from the region in Western museums.
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