Litigation
May 22, 2007
Panel Lets Actress Keep Van Gogh Painting
Elizabeth Taylor displays her Vincent Van Gogh painting, "View of the Asylum of Saint-Remy," at her Los Angeles home in 1990. She has owned it for 40 years, since she had her father buy it for her. A federal appeals court has ruled that it’s too late for the heirs of a Jewish art dealer to repossess the painting.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
Whatever role Nazis may have played in the sale of a Vincent van Gogh masterpiece, it's too late for the heirs of a Jewish art dealer to repossess a painting owned by Elizabeth Taylor for 40 years, a federal appeals court ruled Friday.
Four descendants of the German art dealer and collector Margarete Mauthner said they were entitled to ownershi...
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