French couple go to court for share of rare African mask’s sale price
Artefact fetched €4.2m at auction after elderly pair sold it for €150 – but campaigners say it must be returned to GabonA retired French couple who sold an African mask to a secondhand goods dealer for €150 (£130) have gone to court for a share of the proceeds after the mask fetched €4.2m (£3.7m) at auction.But campaigners insist that the rare artefact instead should be returned to Gabon, in a case that has raised questions over Africa’s cultural heritage looted by colonial France.
