How to keep a Van Gogh
October 21 2015
Picture: Yale
The Yale University Art Gallery has defeated a legal claim that one of their star pictures, Van Gogh's 'The Night Cafe', should be returned to the heirs of a Russian collector whose art works were seized by the Bolsheviks in 1918. More on the legal case here.
It seems on the surface curious that US courts are always eager to restitute artworks if the Nazis were involved, but not the Bolsheviks.
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