Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Tuesday, September 20.The former U.S. ambassador to France, Craig Stapleton, has filed a lawsuit against Rodica Stewart, the chief executive of French auctioneer Tajan. He claims she is hiding a cache of 24 paintings worth €715,886 that he hired her to sell more than a decade ago.
“The question of authorship can be both maddeningly simple and frighteningly difficult to resolve,” Knight writes. After a years-long legal battle, the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven has pledged to return a 1910 painting by Wassily Kandinsky to the heirs of a Jewish collector, Johanna Margarethe Stern-Lippmann, from whom it was seized during World War II. The Dutch restitution committee overturned an earlier decision, saying that “new facts” emerged since 2018, when it sided with the museum.
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