“Simply disappeared”!

During this season of gifts, unwrappings, and surprises, British embassies and government buildings have discovered numerous public artworks missing.

Works of art worth hundreds of thousands of pounds are missing from British embassies and other official buildings around the world. At least 50 paintings from the Government Art Collection are unaccounted for, according to the latest audit. None was insured. Some are known to have been stolen but more than half the total simply disappeared.