allAfrica.com: South Africa: Art as Movable Capital - How Nation May Be Losing Millions Every Year: "The sale could have gone like this: The London auction house could have approached the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA) in advance of the sale to apply for an export permit for the Arab Priest (which it did). SAHRA could have denied the permit on the grounds that the exportation of the painting, deemed a cultural treasure, would be a loss to the national estate (which it did).
Any work of art that was denied a permit should first be offered to a national cultural institution for purchase, but as such institutions have limited budgets"
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