Little could be more bizarre than the idea of a yellow sea sponge who lives in a pineapple in an underwater town called Bikini Bottom, but the latest art-world legal saga comes close.
For a limited-edition collection of 99 cotton shift dresses, mod designer Lisa Perry got the go ahead from Roy Lichtenstein’s estate to reprint three of the artist’s famous works – Spray, 1962, No Thank You, 1964, and On, 1962.
The municipality of The Hague agreed to pay Marei von Saher, the daughter-in-law and only heir of Jewish Old Master dealer Jacques Goudstikker, $1.43 million in a settlement that will allow a fragment of a Jan Steen painting to stay at the Bredius Museum.
The $250,000 Rembrandt drawing stolen from the lobby of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Marina del Rey, Calif., on Saturday was found early this morning at an Encino church after an anonymous tip to the Los Angeles Police Department.
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