The Springfield, (Massachusetts) Library and Museum Association has filed a lawsuit against New York art dealer Knoedler for $3 million, after it had to return a painting to Italy because it was discovered to be war loot. “In June 2001, the Springfield Museum returned the oil painting ‘Spring sowing’ by Jacopo da Ponte, known as Il Bassano, to Italy, after having been shown evidence that the work had disappeared during World War II from the Italian Embassy in Warsaw while on loan from the Uffizi Gallery. Knoedler had sold the painting to the museum in 1955 for $5,000.”