The case involving a Pissarro is being sent back to federal court in California for review in light of a new state law, in a dispute between heirs and a Spanish museum. By Christopher Kuo One of ...
The justices said the fate of the Camille Pissarro painting should be decided under the terms of a new California law that protects the rightful heirs of art that was lost during the Holocaust.
The contentious piece of art is Camille Pissarro’s 1897 oil canvas “Rue Saint-Honoré, in the afternoon. Effect of rain", currently hanging in the Thyssen-Bornemisza museum in Madrid.