Yale can keep Van Gogh

Students of Yale University can breathe a sigh of relief, their Van Gogh remains their Van Gogh.

The painting once belonged to the Russian collector Ivan Morozov Abramovich, after which it passed to the Russian state and a gallery in France before the American Stephen Carlton Clark donated to the art collection of Yale.

Pierre Konowaloff, great-grandson of Morozov, found that the painting was wrongly annexed by the Russian state and wanted through the courts to get the cloth back into the family. That did not happen .