Ownership dispute over Van Gogh’s The Novel Reader settles
The competing parties reached an out-of-court agreement over Van Gogh’s The Novel Reader. An appeals court had previously ordered the Detroit Institute of Arts to retain the loaned canvas while the dispute was pending.
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