The foundation that runs the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum said yesterday that it had reached an agreement with the heirs of the artist Kazimir Malevich over the ownership of an untitled work by him that the museum plans to include in an exhibition this month. In a joint news release, the foundation and the heirs of Malevich, the Russian Suprematist, said they had reached “an amicable settlement” over an oil painting on canvas made by the artist around 1916, which was acquired by Peggy Guggenheim in 1942 and has been part of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Via the New York Times.

A judge in New York has dismissed a “Nazi loot” case by the heirs of George Grosz, who claimed that three paintings by Grosz now in the MoMA collection were taken and traded during the 1930s.

From yesterday’s Minneapolis Star-Tribune:

After 10 years of detective work, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts has concluded that a $2.8 million painting it has owned for decades was stolen by the Nazis. The museum has returned the 1911 painting, Fernand Leger’s “Smoke Over Rooftops,” to the French heirs of a Jewish art collector who died in 1948.

“Having researched this to the end of the road, we decided we had to return the painting; it was the right thing to do,” said Art Institute Director Kaywin Feldman.