John Downing: Small French town goes to battle over Van Gogh’s final painting

The little town of Auvers-sur-Oise, 27km north of Paris, is where painter Vincent Van Gogh spent the last two months of his life in June and July of 1890. Lodging above the ramshackle tavern run by the Ravoux family, the troubled Dutch painter paid three-and-a-half francs a day for a tiny bedroom and two daily meals..