The state of mind of outsider artist Henry Darger in the days before his death could become central to a court case deciding who owns his work.

The reclusive Darger died in 1973 leaving behind his one-room Chicago apartment stuffed with his life's work of hundreds of paintings and a 15,000-page typed novel called In the Realms of the Unreal.

His landlords, Nathan and Kiyoko Lerner, said Darger, who left no will, never married and had no children, left them his possessions.

They have sold, donated and licensed works worth millions of dollars as his reputation has risen with his work being held by the likes of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

But several distant relatives have said they have a claim on the estate and their case will be heard by a jury in March.

The Chicago Sun-Times reported Alan Jay Mandel, an attorney for the would-be heirs, told the court he was considering having a mental-health expert examine whether Darger, who was diagnosed with senility, was well enough to give his works away.

The total amount raised at Sotheby's sales in Paris last week - the highest ever total for a series of marquee auctions in the city. Among the artists whose work drove the record results were Alberto Giacometti, Frantisek Kupka, Marc Chagall and Joan Miro.

There is some serious Monet riding on the World Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays.

Milwaukee's Art Museum has made a wager with the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Florida, that whoever loses sends a work by the French painter to the winning team's hometown.

If the Brewers win, Milwaukee will get Houses of Parliament: Effect of Fog, London, 1904 but if the Rays triumph then Milwaukee will lend its Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect to its Florida counterpart.

Kim Sajet, director of the Milwaukee museum, said she was confident of the win but her counterpart, Klaudio Rodriguez, said: "We admire Kim’s enthusiasm, but we think Milwaukee’s Monet would enjoy a little Florida vacation".

The momentum is currently with Milwaukee one game into the series which they won thanks in part to pitcher Jacob Misiorowski throwing the fastest recorded pitch in World Series history.

Indian art specialist Charles Greig has donated 50 works by artists who lived and worked in the country in the 18th and 19th centuries to the Tate.

The gallery said the donation, made "without the use of tax incentives", was an "entirely philanthropic act, made with the desire to ensure these masterworks can be accessed and enjoyed by the nation".

Greig spent four decades building the collection which includes oil paintings, watercolours and miniatures by artists such as Ghulam Ali Khan as well as European painters including Rudolf Swoboda and William Hodges.

Alex Farquharson, director of Tate Britain in London where the works will go on show in 2028, said the paintings were "a testament" to Greig's ability to build "a transformative collection of museum-quality artworks".

1 - The Philadelphia Museum of Art has been given $20 million to set up a new learning center in the north wing of the building. The money, from Comcast founder Julian Brodsky and his wife Lois, will fund its first major capital project since Frank Gehry’s four-year expansion project which opened in 2021.

2 - Patrick Flores, chief curator at the National Gallery Singapore, and assistant chief executive Chris Lee are both leaving the institution in December. Their departures, reported by the Straits Times newspaper, come after chief executive and director Eugene Tan announced he is leaving later this year.

3 - Riot police were called to the Colosseum in Rome on Saturday after protesters forced their way in during a march in the Italian capital. No damage was reported during what the country's Ministry of Culture described as a "sudden, temporary intrusion".

4 - Singer Patti Smith and the team behind Japanese animation giants Studio Ghibli were among the winners of this year's Princess of Asturias awards in Spain. Each winner, who also included footballer Lionel Messi, is given a Joan Miro sculpture and a cash prize of $56,000.

5 - The ice rink in Washington D.C.'s National Gallery of Art Sculpture Garden opens on November 23 to March 7. Its central fountain is converted into a rink where visitors can skate past monumental sculptures by artists including Alexander Calder and Louise Bourgeois.

6 - Vinted co-founder Justas Janauskas's Upe Foundation has launched its scholarship program supporting one Baltic student per academic year to live in London and study on the Courtauld Institute's MA History of Art course. The foundation was set up with Lithuanian curator and art historian Adomas Narkevicius who said it would help bring "Baltic perspectives to inform and expand international art historical and contemporary discourse".