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The article reports multiple art-world developments: the heirs of German Jewish banker Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy are appealing a court dismissal of their lawsuit to recover a Van Gogh Sunflowers painting, claiming it was sold under Nazi duress. Japan's Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art is selling major works including a Monet Nymphéas (1907) through Christie's as its parent company, DIC Corporation, downsizes and relocates the museum. A man was killed unloading an Andy Warhol-painted BMW Art Car in Washington, D.C., and a newly discovered Picasso portrait of Dora Maar will be auctioned in Paris. Sotheby's will sell a Surrealist collection led by a Frida Kahlo painting estimated at $40–60 million. The article also asks whether Uzbekistan is becoming a major art hub.
