Strasbourg, 05/01/2000 (Agence Europe) - In a ruling issued in Strasbourg on 5 January 2000, the European Court of Human Rights notes that Italy has misunderstood the right of ownership, as protected by the European Convention on Human Rights, using its right of pre-emption on the painting by Vaincent Van Gogh entitled "The Gardner".
The famous Swiss art galley owner Ernst Beyeler bought the painting in 1977. Intervention by an intermediary had not enabled the Italian authorities at the...