Earlier this year the Seattle Art Museum returned a Matisse painting that had been stolen by the Nazis. Then the museum sued New York’s Knoedler Gallery, which had originally sold the painting to some Seattle collectors back in 1954. SAM is trying to reclaim the painting’s market value, now estimated at $11 million, from the gallery. “But some legal complications recently led to a court order for the museum to pay $143,000 for part of the gallery’s legal fees.” – Seattle Times