Civil Litigation
May 1, 2019
Museum in Spain to keep painting despite claims of Holocaust victims' descendants, judge rules
A museum in Spain will keep a $40 million painting by iconic impressionist Camille Pissarro despite a claim by descendants of Holocaust victims that Nazis stole the artwork, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
A museum in Spain will keep a $40 million painting by iconic impressionist Camille Pissarro despite a claim by descendants of Holocaust victims that Nazis stole the artwork, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
U.S. District Judge John F. Walker found that while Nazis did steal the piece, "Rue Saint-Honore, Apres Midi, Effect de Pluie," from David Cassirer's ancestor, Lilly, in exchange for passage out of Poland in 1939, the Thyssen-Born...
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