A Vincent van Gogh painting will continue to hang on the walls of the Yale University Art Gallery after the U.S. Supreme Court decided to not hear an appeal from a man who claims his ancestor was the rightful owner of the masterpiece titled “Night Cafe.”
“I understand that Supreme Court has a giant docket of national cases so it can’t, from an economical view, handle every case,” said Allan Gerson, the Washington, D.C., attorney representing Pierre Konowaloff, the man who claims he’s the rightful owner of the masterpiece. However, he expressed displeasure at how the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit handled the case. “I do not understand why the court of appeals ruled the way they did,” Gerson said.
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