Yale sues to establish ownership claim for Van Gogh painting

From The Yale Daily News: Yale University in New Haven, Conn., is suing to hang onto one of artist Vincent Van Gogh's most famous works. The suit seeks to establish the school's ownership rights over "The Night Cafe." It also seeks to block a descendant of the original owner from claiming it. Pierre Konowaloff is the purported great-grandson of industrialist and aristocrat Ivan Morozov, who owned the painting in 1918. Russia nationalized Morozov's property during the Communist revolution, and the Soviet government later sold it. It has been hanging in the Yale University Art Gallery for almost 50 years.