Ferenc Chorin’s daughter says her father, who died in 1964, never searched for the artwork but would have been 'elated to learn that some form of his former life had been found'

Case has been going on since 2005 amid dispute between heir of a Jewish woman forced to sell work when she fled Germany, and a Spanish museum that later purchased it

Museum of Fine Arts Bern giving up pieces it concludes were stolen by the Nazis or of doubtful origin, but retaining most despite their provenance remaining unproven

Dutch master's 1888 'Wheatstacks' far exceeds estimates to sell for $35.9 million, a record for a Van Gogh watercolor; collection of impressionist works fetches $332 million

Alte Nationalgalerie's president thanks family of Armand Dorville for allowing purchase of 'A Square in La Roche Guyon,' which Holocaust victim had purchased in 1928 in France

'Wheatstacks' expected to fetch at least $20 million; sale going ahead after agreement reached between estate of current owner and heirs of two Jewish art collectors

Justices insist personal beliefs won't influence rulings; but some Jewish groups aren't appeased and worry erosion of court's reputation could eventually harm religious minority

Court says it will hear appeal by heirs of German Jewish woman and a San Diego Jewish organization over artwork that was initially taken by Nazis and now hangs in a Madrid museum

Vienna-based seller im Kinksy is at the center of a dispute between grandchildren of a couple murdered in the Holocaust and a 2008 buyer whose anonymity it is sworn to maintain

'Painting with Houses,' worth $22 million was acquired from a Jewish family that was under duress during the Holocaust