Van Gogh's roots... why did he have to get to court?

For more than a century, no one knew with certainty where Vincent van Gogh had painted his last painting. That one, where there are roots of a tree. An unfinished work created just hours before his death in 1890. It remained wrapped in mystery until, in the middle of 2020, an art historian identified in an old photograph a real landscape that coincided with the shapes of the canvas. The finding placed in Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris, in the c…