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Thursday, 11 June 2015 10:51

Spain’s Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum Will Keep Its Controversial Pissarro Painting

Camille Pissarro's 'Rue Saint-Honoré, Après-midi, Effet de Pluie.' Camille Pissarro's 'Rue Saint-Honoré, Après-midi, Effet de Pluie.' Wikimedia Commons

A federal judge in Los Angeles has declined to order the return of an Impressionist painting to the relatives of a Jewish woman who was forced to sell the work for $360 to a Nazi art appraiser in 1939.

The ruling came after a decade-long dispute over ownership of the 1897 canvas, “Rue Saint-Honoré, Après-midi, Effet de Pluie,” a Paris street scene by Pissarro, which is in the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid. The judge, John F. Walter of United States District Court, rejected a claim by relatives of the woman, Lilly Cassirer, who sued the museum and Spain seeking to have the painting turned over to them or to be awarded damages.

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