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Fate a French Impressionist pictures once stolen Nazis from a Jewish The woman is once again in question after the U.S. Supreme Court revived a case that could decide on ownership.
It’s a picture, Camille Pissarro “Rue Saint-Honorea in the afternoon, the rain effect,” should remain in the hands of the prominent Spanish The museum where he is now hanging – or with the descendants of a woman.
On Monday, the Supreme Court said that the case was reconsidered under the California Law passed last year aimed at strengthening the claims of survivors of the Holocaust and their families who want to recover stolen art. In doing so, the courts have overturned previous lower court decisions that were collected mutual museum Thyssen-Bornemisz in Madrid.
Oil painting from 1897. Displays Rainswept Paris streets and is estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars.
Her owner used to be Lilly Cassirer Neubauer, the German Jew, which the Nazis submitted a picture of the Nazis to get visas for himself and her husband to leave Germany.
The painting has changed several times several times, traveling to the United States in which she spent 25 years with different collectors before he bought it in 1976. Baron Hans Heinrich Thyssen-Bornemisz from Lugan, Switzerland. He owned until the 1990s, when he sold a large from his art collection to Spain.
On Monday, Neubauer’s lawyer and California Resident David Cassirer said he was grateful in the United States High Court “to insist on the implementation of the principles of rights and wrong.” He took on a family fight for the picture after his father Claude Cassirer – who first discovered that the painting was not lost, but on exposed in the Madrid Art Museum – died in 2010. years.
The lawyer representing the Foundation for the Thyssen-Bornemisz collection said that the Foundation would continue to work on the supervisory property confirmation “as it has in the last 20 years.”
Thaddeus Stauber also said that the High Court order provided the first opportunity to examine the new California law and which effect could have in museum ownership. ”