Legal Updates on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Picasso, Elizabeth Taylor’s Van Gogh

Callen Bair of Figure Painting tackles one from my I-really-should-follow-up-on-this-list—the legal status of the Lloyd Webber Picasso, “Angel Fernández de Soto.” It was withdrawn at the last minute from Christie’s big Impressionist/modern sale last November, due to questions raised about its Nazi-era past.
The wheels of justice grind slowly: Bair reports that the matter is still awaiting a decision in U.S. District Court.
And in other celebrity Nazi-era lawsuit news, the dispute over Elizabeth Taylor‘s van Gogh, “View of the Asylum and Chapel at Saint-Remy,” which was decided in her favor in May by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in San Francisco, has reportedly been appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court by the Canadian claimants.