Court lets Liz Taylor keep van Gogh painting
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The U.S. Supreme Court allowed actress Elizabeth Taylor to keep a Vincent van Gogh painting on Monday, rejecting an appeal by descendants of a Jewish woman who said she was forced to sell it before fleeing Nazi Germany in 1939.
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A painting has sold for 1,700 times its maximum reserve price as the winning bidder believed it to be a self-portrait by 17th century Dutch artist Rembrandt, British media reported on Saturday.
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The Norwegian Supreme Court on Friday increased the sentences of two men convicted of stealing two masterworks by Edvard Munch, âThe Screamâ and âMadonna,â right, and ordered a new trial for a third convicted man, The Associated Press reported. The paintings were stolen in August 2004 in a daylight raid on the Munch Museum in Oslo. They were recovered by police nearly two years later, and are undergoing repairs for scrapes, punctures, loose paint and moisture damage. Last month the three men appealed their 2006 sentences. In answer, Norwayâs highest court unanimously ruled that the prison terms for two of the men, Petter Tharaldsen and Stian Skjold, were not long enough, considering the âirreplaceable national cultural valueâ of the paintings. The court increased Mr. Tharaldsenâs sentence by one year, to 10 Â½ years, and Mr. Skjoldâs sentence by six months, to six years. The court did reject the conviction of a third man, Bjoern Hoen, saying that testimony in his trial may have been tainted, and sent his case back for a new trial.
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Elizabeth Gibson found a painting by Rufino Tamayo  on the street four years ago.  Said to be worth about $1 million, it is heading for the auction block next month.
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Japan's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a collection of erotic photographs by the late Robert Mapplethorpe does not violate obscenity laws, a decision that should allow the sale of the book for the first time in eight years.
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Going, going, gone? Not if Italy's police can stop renowned auction house Christie's from selling a painting they believe was stolen from an art shop in Rome.
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An Andy Warhol painting that a man tried to consign to Christieâs auction house turned out to be listed as stolen.
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A former manager of singer and songwriter Seal on Thursday won a court judgment claiming he was owed commissions from the artist&#039;s first two albums.
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FREDERICTON (CP) - The Beaverbrook Art Gallery is getting major financial support from the New Brunswick government in its battle to keep millions of dollars in paintings from the heirs of the late Lord Beaverbrook.
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NEW YORK -- A painting from Claude Monet&#39;s iconic series on London&#39;s House of Parliament has sold at auction for $20.1 million.
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Tomma Abts becomes the first woman painter to win the controversial Â£25,000 Turner Prize.
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The Supreme Court on Wednesday reversed a lower ruling in favor of a cosmetics company that contended a competitor was unfairly using the name of its tattooing ink.
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The Mississippi Supreme Court has reopened litigation over who owns photographs and writings of bluesman Robert Johnson, nearly 14 months after declaring his son sole heir to royalties from the memorabilia.
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Three photographers who took pictures of Britain&#39;s Princess Diana and her friend Dodi al Fayed on the night of their fatal 1997 car crash did not break French privacy laws, an appeals court ruled Tuesday.
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Country singer Keith Urban takes a painter with the same name to court over his website.
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A Turner painting which sold for a record Â£5.8m at auction earlier this year is barred from going abroad.
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An important painting by a prominent French artist has been reunited in one frame for the first time since it was sliced into two pieces in the 18th century.