Law & Politics Site of Van Gogh’s Final Painting Will Remain in Private Hands, Says French Court. The Dutchman’s rendition of tree roots is at the center of a five-years-long legal spat.

One of the paintings, The Ward in the Hospital in Arles, is of the men’s ward where Van Gogh stayed at Hotel-Dieu Saint-Esprit and was made in mid to late April 1889.The composition exaggerates ...

The continued fight over van Gogh’s tree roots has cast a pall over what is usually a celebratory season in Auvers, population 7,000, where art tourism is a big business that heats up in the spring.