UK issues export bar for Antonio Canova’s Bust of Peace sculpture

The UK government has issued an export bar on a previously lost Antonio Canova bust that sold at a Sotheby’s auction earlier this summer.

The white marble Bust of Peace sold for £4.5m (£5.3m including buyer’s premium) at Sotheby’s on July…

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