NGAs Seated Buddha to return to India

In good faith the NGA has announced that it will voluntarily donate its Seated Buddha to India over mounting provenance questions.

10 Mar 2015

Gina Fairley

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Visual Arts

The NGA’s Seated Buddha to return to India in good faith.

The National Gallery of Australia (NGA) announced Friday that, in partnership with the Nancy Wiener Gallery Inc.(NWG), it will repatriate the gallery’s Seated Buddha to India.

Questions surrounding the Kushan period sculpture’s provenance were raised last year as part of investigations under the Gallery’s Asian Art Provenance Research Project, which established in December 2014 under new director Gerard Vaughan.

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Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's National Visual Arts Editor. For a decade she worked as a freelance writer and curator across Southeast Asia and was previously the Regional Contributing Editor for Hong Kong based magazines Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. Prior to writing she worked as an arts manager in America and Australia for 14 years, including the regional gallery, biennale and commercial sectors. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW. Twitter: @ginafairley Instagram: fairleygina