Explore the Official responses about the The theft of this artwork.
The Victorian government refused to accept any of the demands and offered a A$50,000 reward for information leading to the capture of the perpetrators. Mathews was reported as saying: "I can't imagine that anybody who had genuinely at heart the interests either of art or of art lovers could have perpetrated an action of this sort." McCaughey was reported to have said, "We live in a philistine nation but a civilised city."
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