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Supreme Court Orders Reconsideration of Nazi-Looted Painting Case

The U.S. Supreme Court revived a case regarding the ownership of Camille Pissarro's painting, 'Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain.'
The Supreme Court ordered reconsideration under a California law, challenging previous lower court decisions favoring the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum.
David Cassirer, great-grandson of Lilly Cassirer Neubauer, expressed gratitude to the Supreme Court for upholding principles of right and wrong.
The court's decision aligns with a California law aimed at aiding Holocaust survivors in recovering stolen art.

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Jerusalem Post

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Spanish museum fights to keep Nazi-looted painting from Jewish family

The family of Lilly Cassirer are seeking the return of the oil painting Camille Pissarro’s 'Rue St. Honoré, dans l’après-midi. Effet de pluie.'

25 days ago·Jerusalem, Israel

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Boston Globe

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Gardner Museum marks 35th anniversary of infamous heist with restored — and empty — frames - The Boston Globe

Conservators unveiled the completed restoration of the frame that once held Rembrandt's "Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee."

25 days ago·Boston, United States

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Jacobin

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A Museum Worthy of Spain’s Democratic Transition

In the late 1970s, nationalist vigilantes tried to destroy Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. Today the painting itself is safe — but the museum in which it is housed has again become the focus of right-wing polemics. A woman views Pablo Picasso's Guernica painting at the Reina Sofia museum on September 10, 2021, in Madrid, Spain. (Denis Doyle / Getty Images) Twentieth-century Spain could boast of world-leading artists from Salvador Dalí to Joan Miró an…

26 days ago

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jurist.org

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US Supreme Court reopens case over rightful ownership of Nazi-looted painting

The US Supreme Court on Monday revived a case on the fate of “Rue Saint-Honoré in the Afternoon, Effect of Rain,” a painting by French impressionist Camille Pissarro now worth millions. The court ordered that the case be reconsidered under a recently-passed California law intended to make it easier for Holocaust survivors and their families to recover stolen art. The painting is currently in a Spanish museum but could be returned to the plaintif…

26 days ago

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The Algemeiner

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US Supreme Court Decision Reopens Family’s Efforts to Recover Nazi-Stolen Painting Worth Millions

A ruling by the US Supreme Court on Monday has restarted a fight over the ownership of artist Camille Pissarro's 1897 oil painting "Rue Saint-Honoré, in the afternoon. Effect of rain," a work stolen by the Nazi regime and now hanging in Madrid's Thyssen-Bornemisza museum. Citing a new California law, the justices reversed the decision

26 days ago·New York, United States

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The Mercury news

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Supreme Court boosts effort by family of California man to reclaim Nazi-looted painting

A 20-year legal odyssey seeking the return of a Nazi-looted painting that once belonged to the German Jewish family of a former La Mesa resident endured its latest twist Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court ordered an appellate court to reconsider the fate of the artwork. The ruling is a win — for now — for the family of Claude Cassirer, a longtime La Mesa resident who died in 2010, five years after he first sued for the return of French artist Ca…

27 days ago·San Jose, United States

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