Sunday, February 6, 2011

£18,000 Stormont Executive Artworks Missing

It’s time to get new entertaining of finance; fourteen works have disappeared from the collection of the executive. The works, worth approximately £ 18,800 and disappeared between 1998 and 2006. New safeguards have been taken to try to prevent further losses. The information was discovered by the chairman of the Stormont Culture Committee, Barry McElduff. This is a worrying development that works of art owned by the government under the supervision of the Ministry of Finance and Personnel and the civil missing.


Among the documents is missing, a 1970 oil painting by David Tully More Crone worth £ 4,500. It disappeared from Dundonald House, the Ministry of Agriculture headquarters at Stormont in 2005. Another, a watercolor of Shaw’s Bridge and the Lagan Canal from 1994 by Romeo Toogood, has a value of £ 1,250. It was also missing from Dundonald House in 2002. Other works of art disappeared from the Land Registry in Belfast and Castle Buildings at Stormont. A letter from the DFP to Mr McElduff said extensive efforts were made to modern art. These include searching the premises, contacting anyone who may have been involved in moving and distributing images of the missing documents to the installation of officers.


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