Culture minister blocks export of Femme,an influential work sold to a foreign buyer, in hope that a Briton will find £2m to buy itAn principal Alberto Giacometti plaster sculpture which is considered a pivotal link between British and European modernism has been prevented from leaving the UK.
Ed Vaizey, or the culture minister,placed a temporary export bar on the nearly abstract work, called Femme.
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Source: theguardian.com